Delivery of the 58-tonne misalignment coupling, supplied by German specialist outfit Centa, moves the facility closer to being ready to hook-up its first nacelle, the second of Vestas' V164 8MW prototype transmission systems.

The coupling, the largest ever built by Centa, has a nominal transmission torque of 8.6MNm and with an overload unit a release torque of 12.5MNm, similar to an industrial rock-crusher, for drive-trains with power output of up to 10MW.

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