The board of Hansen Transmissions approves an investment plan of over € 140 million to expand production capacity and R&D infrastructure.
The first stage of this investment aims at expanding Hansen's production facilities in Belgium. One of the important goals of the investment plan is to maximise output of gearboxes for multi-megawatt wind turbines at the existing plant at Lommel, Belgium. Also, testing facilities for both production and R&D will be expanded up to a full-load capacity of 13MW. This means Hansen’s combined internal testing capacity will reach a total of more than 30MW. To support this expansion, Hansen recently bought an extra 63,500 m² adjacent to the existing plant. This brings the total surface of the Lommel plant up to 180,000 m². With this investment, Hansen will also create more than 300 new jobs.
