Danish wind suppliers see growth abroad

Danish suppliers hope to benefit from offshore wind's roll-out

Denmark’s wind industry supply-chain expects domestic business to be flat at best this year, but hopes growth elsewhere in Northern Europe will help to compensate.

Danish sub-contractors and suppliers predict a decline of between 0-5% in Denmark in both sales and employment in 2013, but activities abroad are expected to see an increase of 1-3% in employment and 3-5%, according to a new survey by the Danish Wind Energy Association (DWEA).

Operation, service, maintenance, transportation and installation are the areas expected to perform the best in 2013.

“There are several overall factors which make for a difficult year in 2013 for Danish sub-suppliers. Partly we have seen an enormous uncertainty and decline in the American market and partly a decline in the Southern European…

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