Japanese-Danish offshore turbine maker MHI Vestas is to expand its UK manufacturing facilities with a new painting and logistics facility for its record-breaking 80-metre blades at Fawley on the south coast of England.

The company says the new facility – to be located on a site where the Fawley oil-fired power plant once generated electricity – will complement MHI Vestas’ advanced manufacturing facility on the nearby Isle of Wight, where its blades are manufactured.