BWE Industry Report - Wind Industry in Germany 2018

Manufacturers of

Manufacturers of wind turbines SCHÜTZ GmbH & Co. KGaA The SCHÜTZ GmbH & Co. KGaA that was founded by Udo Schütz in 1958 has 5,000 employees at 52 locations around the world. The broad spectrum of services offered by our group covers the areas of PACKAGING SYSTEMS, ENERGY SYSTEMS, INDUSTRIAL SERVICES and COMPOSITES. SCHÜTZ has been producing lightweight construction materials and fibre-reinforced composite components for the aerospace industry under the brand name CORMASTER for more than 30 years. We are continuously expanding this company division with SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES, in order to successfully utilise the collective expertise and technical capabilities held by the company in the area of wind energy. SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES, as part of the SCHÜTZ Group, develops and produces master models, moulds, prototypes, rotor blades and wind power plants at its Siershahn location in Westerwald. As an innovative manufacturer in the area of composites, the construction and production of operating materials and production facilities are an integral part of our comprehensive range of services. SCHÜTZ GmbH & Co. KGaA Location Siershahn Adress Schützstrasse 12 56242 Selters Phone +49 (0)2626 77-0 Fax +49 (0)2626 77-5 32 E-Mail info@schuetz-composites.net Web www.schuetz-composites.net Profile Wind turbines (> 100 kW) Category Manufacturers Turnover € 1.7 billion Employees > 5,000 Founding year 1958 38 Wind Industry in Germany

Manufacturers of wind turbines ensure optimum development and production processes. SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES thus holds the full range of manufacturing capabilities – from model construction through to the finished rotor blade – all at one location. Naturally, SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES also offers all of the individual steps in the development and production processes for rotor blades – from model construction through to series production – as individual services. As with all the other divisions in the SCHÜTZ Group, SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES also has the ideal infrastructure for the development and production of its products. A 32,815 m 2 hall complex was specially built for the wind power sector, which encompasses all of the production steps under one roof. The continuous sharing of knowledge across the SCHÜTZ Group and direct access to the expertise of the more than 200 specialist employees in the SCHÜTZ custom machine engineering and the CORMASTER aerospace sectors provides the best all-round conditions to SCHÜTZ COMPOSITES is ideally located from a logistical point of view directly next to the A3 motorway, just north of the Dernbach junction. Our factory in Siershahn, which covers an area of 137,000 m 2 , can easily be spotted alongside the motorway. And thanks to the availability of a further 170,000 m 2 of space next to the factory, there is also sufficient space for handling even larger series production contracts. Wind Industry in Germany 39