German wind OEM Nordex reported sharply increased sales and profits at the nine-month stage of 2016, as it predicted a full-year result at the lower end of guidance.

Nordex is currently integrating the business of Acciona Windpower (AWP), which it acquired earlier this year and contributed 24% of order intake so far in 2016. It expects AWP to “play a growing role in the final quarter of the year”.

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