Talk:Siemens Wind Power/Archives/2012

New SWP Headquarter in Hamburg

I found out that Siemens moved the headquarter of SWP to Hamburg. This change should be implemented in the article.

I think, that this change of headquarters could also affect other articles in wikipedia where "Siemens Wind Power" is called a "Denish / German" company. E.g. this article: List of wind turbine manufacturers

Fiet008 (talk) 09:44, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

The move of some administration was partly included in the article before it happened using that reference, following the previous project management move in 2009. The move is yet to be confirmed, and should be replaced by a Reliable Source instead of Siemens PR. The list currently has both Danish and German flags, so it corresponds with reality as development and main production remains in Denmark with 2/3 of the employees. TGCP (talk) 15:01, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Siemens Wind Power is a Division within the Energy Sector of a German company. True it is the result of the acquisition of a Danish company and there is major production and R&D capacity in Denmark, but there is also R&D and production capacity in the US. Using the logic that SWP is partially Danish, due to the location of production, we should make sure to list Apple as a Chinese/American company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.174.214.178 (talk) 09:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Early history

According to http://www.hubnorth.com/en-GB/Cases/Cases/Siemens-is-growing-stronger-in-North-Jutland.aspx there is/was some link to the now closed Aalborg Shipyard -see also http://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/albert-og-vingefabrikken/e1aeb754-fce1-4d84-9d9c-6f4d9dac7523/1/1513#/0 - something to do with experience working with fibreglass - eg making the Flyvefisken class patrol vessel is related to a blade factory being established... 83.100.195.134 (talk) 12:39, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

The factories in Engesvang (acquired from LM I think) and Fort Madison, and Hutchinson, USA are not mentioned explicitly and should be (with dates). According to the interview source above Bonus originally got blades from LM .. at some later point it established the blade facility in Brande - this should be mentoned and dated too.83.100.195.134 (talk) 12:44, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

BONUS name

According to an earlier version the name "BONUS" was the brand of the original turbines diff.

I'm not saying this is wrong, but the sources don't mention this, or that the first turbine was manufactured in Brande.

Also the date of the establishment of Dan. Vindkraft is given in some sources as 1980 in others as "the following year" (after 1980).. Can someone check this (eg maybe the Danish equivalent is Companies House will have the records online?) Oranjblud (talk) 12:44, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

I found an answer to the second part at - http://web.archive.org/web/20010331181302/http://www.bonus.dk/uk/profil/profilvinduer/mere_historie.html -which clarifies some history, still looking for the turbine brand name.Oranjblud (talk) 13:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC)