“This factory is ready to export to Latin America, at least,” Jean-Marc Lechene, Vestas' chief operating officer, said at the opening ceremony in the northeast state of Ceará.

The Danish company was the last of six turbine makers to decide to adhere to the national development bank's local-content programme in 2013. It built the plant in just under two years, and next week will finish assembling its first turbine, to be delivered to a project controlled by Spain's Gestamp in northeast Brazil.