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| Press release October 16, 2008 |
Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation: Shanghai, China: Beginning of this week, Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation, one of the leading global suppliers of complete hydro power plants and services, inaugurated a new electric generator workshop at its manufacturing facilities in Shanghai. Voith Siemens Hydro puts new generator workshop in production Shanghai, China: Beginning of this week, Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation, one of the leading global suppliers of complete hydro power plants and services, inaugurated a new electric generator workshop at its manufacturing facilities in Shanghai. This inauguration does not only mark the official completion of the newly built workshop for which ground had been broken in December 2006. The ceremony also clearly demonstrated full-scale operation of Voith Siemens Hydro’s generator manufacture in China. At the event, Voith Siemens Hydro was able to welcome over 80 high rank representatives from trade and industry, as well as from federal, state and local governments. “We are very proud of having completed the new workshop that will satisfy the needs of the booming Chinese and Asian hydro power markets in a way that we call “engineered reliability”, said Aage Dalsjoe, President of Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation Shanghai Ltd. during the ceremony. “China is one of the most important markets for Voith Siemens Hydro worldwide, and the capacity expan-sion of the Shanghai site emphasizes our commitment to deliver excellent hydro power The new workshop offers 3,500 square meters for the manufacture of generator poles and stator bars. Equipped with facilities for manufacturing of 700 MW large units, which is the equivalent of the average capacity of one coal-fired power plant .The workshop will meet the growing needs for large-capacity and high-quality generators in China and other Asian countries. In recent years, China has made rapid progress in hydro power infrastructure construction. This March, the National Development and Reform Commission of China issued the 11th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development. The new plan states that China will continue to develop hydro power with full effort and increase the share of renewable energy in the overall energy supply over the next five years. Predictions see total installed hydro power capacity in China reach 190 million kW by 2010 and 300 million kW by 2020. Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation is a Group Division of Voith and - with a workforce of around 3,000 employees and an order intake of more than 1 billion Euros in the past business year. Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation belongs to the world-wide leading companies for hydro power equipment. Voith is setting standards in the markets paper, energy, mobility and service. Founded on 1 January 1867, and nowadays with approximately 37,000 employees, a turnover of 4.2 billion Euros and more than 270 locations worldwide, Voith is one of Europe’s large family-owned companies. Voith is an official partner of the initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas." |
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 Aage Dalsjoe, President of Voith Siemens Hydro Shanghai (right), and Tang Xu, Head of Sales, welcome their guests. 
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 Over 80 high ranks from industry, trade and politics had come to the inauguration ceremony. |
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 Voith Siemens Hydro executives launched the workshop with Shanghai representatives from industry and trade, and government officials. |
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 Employees demonstrated insulation of stator bars – which is the heart of stator bar manufacturing and still is done by hand. |
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Barbara Fischer-Aupperle Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation GmbH & Co. KG | P.O. Box 2010, 89510 Heidenheim | Germany Tel +49 7321 37-0 | Fax +49 7321 37-6180 E-Mail barbara.fischer-aupperle@vs-hydro.com |
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