Michigan Wind Energy
Active Industry
You're in good company when you locate your wind energy initiatives in Michigan. We are home to over 25 companies who supply components or manufacturing services to the wind industry, with over 900 companies with the core competencies to provide design, engineering, machining, automation or assembly services to the growing wind market.
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Locating your wind energy business in Michigan, you join an expanding list of suppliers including:
- Merrill Technologies – Machining, Fabrication, Sub Assemblies
- Energetx – Blade and Nacelle Housing Production
- Dowding Industries – Machining, Fabrication, Blade Production
- MAG Automation – Blade and Hub Automation Equipment
- Loc Performance – Yaw and Pitch Drive Gears
- Ricardo Inc - Engineering and system integration firm
- K&M Machine - Fabrication and Machining - Nacelle frames, rotor hubs, gearboxes, bearing blocks
- Dow Chemical - Blade Materials and Molds, Composites
- Kaydon Bearings Division - Bearings
- Diversified Tooling Group - Component Mach/Fab
- Danotek Motion Technology - Generators, Permanent Magnet
- Cascade Renewable Energy Solutions - Plastic Injection Molding, Machining
- OptoAtmospherics - LIDAR Wind Measurement
- Windemuller - Automation and/or Assembly
- SKF USA Inc. - Bearings
- ATI Casting Service/ Allegheny Technologies - Castings
- Creative Foam Composite Systems - Blade Materials, foam support, insulating foam for nacelles
- Gexpro - Automation and/or Assembly
- Three M Tool & Machinery - Machining - Gear Box Housings
- Gougeon Brothers Inc. - Blade Materials, Composites
- Great Lakes Gear Technologies, Inc. - Gear Box Machinery
- Carter Products Company Inc - Blades, Laser Lay-up Alignment Systems
- Systems Control - Electronic controls and substation control centers
- Ort Tool & Die - Fabrication and Machining - Gear Box Housings
- Ideal Fabricators - Large Fabrication
- Genzink Steel - Fabrication
- Williams Form Engineering Corp - Foundation Studs, Tower Anchors
- Bauer Power - Renewable Energy System Integrator
- Great Lakes Heavy Haul - Transportation and Logistics
In May, the state of Michigan formed a partnership with the government of Navarra, Spain to work collaboratively with leading industry experts, including the Michigan-based wind turbine manufacturer Energetx Composites, to develop green technology.
In April, MSF approved a Center of Energy Excellence designation and $6 million in funding for Astraeus Wind Energy, a cooperative venture between MAG Automation Systems (Port Huron and Sterling Heights) and Dowding Machining (Eaton Rapids) and in collaboration with ORNL and Dow Chemical Company.
Ground was broken this spring for a 115,000-square-foot plant on 38 acres at the Port of Monroe for production of steel wind turbine towers.
Grand Rapids plastic injection-molding firm has become an alternative energy pioneer.
Michigan blows Indiana away in luring Danotek's wind turbine-parts project.
Ann Arbor Wind Power Company Attracts $200,000 in Pre-Seed Venture Capital Funding
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