McSwain Manufacturing, a division of Heraux Devtek in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been manufacturing power-generation parts for almost 30 years. In fact, it manufactured for GE Energy Power Systems even before the company purchased Enron’s wind division and entered the renewable energy industry. “Because they knew us as a trustworthy vendor, they approached us with a…

Here’s the state of the wind industry in two paragraphs: Construction is shifting from the Midwest to states with Renewable Electricity Standards. There is a big push is to get costs out. OEMs prefer lean manufacturing principles to slice costs from components. Turbine OEMs have cut costs by about 25% over the past decade and…