Too narrow residential roads in Esbjerg could have a decisive impact on the future of wind turbine supplier Welcon, which produces large steel towers for wind turbines at its factory in Give. Problems with transportation threaten to close the company in the long term, and CEO Jens Pedersen is calling for action. This is reported by Børsen.
The towers, which can have a diameter of up to ten meters, are too large to be transported along highways and must therefore be transported along smaller residential roads – to the great inconvenience of the residents and with increasing difficulties for the transporters.
- We have a factory with huge capacity and over 1000 employees. We deliver profits as one of the few in the industry. But what could risk knocking us out is that we simply cannot transport the wind turbine parts because the roads are too small, says Jens Pedersen, CEO of Welcon.
Rambøll has estimated that a new road and necessary adjustments could cost between 167 and 258 million. DKK. A solution that Jens Pedersen believes is crucial if the company is to continue to be able to compete with Chinese manufacturers in particular, who already dominate the global market.
It is not only Welcon that is dependent on the road. The situation could be the same for Welcon's neighbor Siemens' factory in Brande, which has just over 3,500 employees.
Kristian Jensen, CEO of Green Power Denmark, also warns of the consequences that a lack of a solution could have. According to him, it is about preserving both jobs and European security of supply in the green transition.
The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Business are aware of the problem, and Minister of Business Morten Bødskov (S) states that a solution is being worked on in collaboration with the Minister of Transport, municipalities and companies.
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