Winwind and Brevini Wind sign an important agreement for the supply of main gearboxes for WINWIND’S 1 MW turbines.

Winwind Ltd., a Finnish manufacturer of wind turbines with a new established manufacturing plant in India, has signed an agreement with Brevini Wind to supply main gearboxes for Winwind's 1-MW turbines to the manufacturing and assembly plant in India.
The 1 MW gearboxes will be manufactured in the new  factory of  Brevini Wind USA, Inc., in Yorktown, Indiana (USA). The production for this type of gearbox has started recently.

  Brevini Wind is part of Brevini Group, leader in the wind gearbox business for the last 20 years with its product range of pitch and yaw drives. 
In 2007 Brevini Wind started the development of its main gearbox program. Its German subsidiary Brevini Wind Deutschland has developed in close co-operation with Winwind, from its engineering department at Bad Homburg (Germany), a new planetary main gearbox for deployment in Winwind’s 1 MW turbine.

“We are very excited to start also this 1 MW project with Winwind, after the 3 MW main gearbox that we successfully developed in 2010. Both projects show very innovative solutions, and reduce significantly the size of the electrical components. The Brevini Wind 1 MW gearbox is designed for turbines where the main bearing is integrated in the gearbox, allowing a direct assembled generator and thus saving length of the frame and weight of the nacelle“ , says Jacopo Tozzi, President of Brevini Wind.

  The gearbox for Winwind’s 1 MW turbine is the second large contract between Brevini Wind and Winwind.
In close cooperation the two companies developed a very compact design that allows substantial improvements in terms of space and a lighter nacelle.
“The product offerings from Brevini offer a comprehensive one stop shop solution for the pitch and yaw drives and gearboxes for Winwind’s 1MW and 3MW wind turbines, providing the global sourcing team a synergy based sourcing option”, according to Farhan Mirza, Vice President and Global Head of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Management at Winwind Ltd.

Brevini Wind operations have significant competitive advantages in two locations, excellent design capabilities, two identical test benches of 6.4 MW, one in Brevini Wind USA and one in Germany, in house heat treatment and most updated manufacturing equipment.

With its new plants in the USA and in Germany Brevini Wind has a total production capacity of up to 1600  reliable, efficient and innovative main gear boxes (1000 in the USA and up to 600 in Germany) for wind power plants per year that help you safe time and costs.