Wind turbine kits are sizeable order

There’s been movement over the past five years from manufacturers looking to supply turbines for wind farms across the world. It’s driving an expansion at the New Orleans-based Advanced Cutting Solutions, which is investing $750,000 over the next 24 months for at least two more machines to make wind turbine blade kits used to assemble these turbines The company expects to hire two dozen workers to meet that demand. ACS creates “the bones of the turbine blades themselves," said Peter Schneeweiss, co-founder and VP, told NOLA.com. These bones can be sizeable, typically longer than 100 feet. Manufacturers send contracted 3-D models to ACS, which the company builds a prototype before completing the order. With sizeable orders, ACS cut those bones into puzzle pieces, and are shipped to turbine manufacturers to assemble. ACS began building a handful of wind turbine kits annually for small manufacturers, but after standardizing the approached larger firms the company makes 40 blades a week. ACS has purchased a new building inside NASA's former Michoud Assembly Facility in East New Orleans. (Source: NOLA.com 06/13/21) An inside look at a Louisiana wind turbine parts maker that's expanding | Business News | nola.com