PTC fears and cheap gas behind DMI wind tower sale

Policy uncertainty and cheap gas, rather than subsidised competition from China, are behind Otter Tail Corporation’s announcement last week that it is to sell its DMI Industries unit – a leading US manufacturer of utility-scale wind towers, a senior executive tells Recharge.

Otter Tail is negotiating to sell DMI for $20m and expects to close the transaction no later than 3 January, 2013. Michael J. Olsen, senior vice president of corporate communications, declined to name the potential buyer or say if it was a foreign company.

“We are actively negotiating with someone now,” he says. Its plant in West Fargo, North Dakota, employs 216 workers with another 167 at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, facility.

Otter Tail has entered into a nonbinding letter of interest to sell the properties, plants and equipment. If Log in to read complete article.

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