It’s a dark day for the employees at wind turbine manufacturer Vestas in Ringkjøbing, where the company has decided to cut around 200 jobs due to declining demand for onshore wind turbine projects.

In return, Vestas will ramp up offshore wind activities in Lindø and Nakskov, and increased activity is also planned at the company’s factory in Lem.

In total, Vestas expects to hire around 300 employees across the three factories during 2024 - but the scaling up will primarily take place in Lindø and Nakskov.

The adjustment of production in Denmark is made to adapt the supply chain and production facilities to the development in demand, where growth in the future is expected to be driven more by the offshore wind market.

”To meet the demand for offshore wind in the markets around Denmark, we will therefore increase our overall activity and employee levels in our production in Denmark.”

”At the same time, we continue to see very limited demand for onshore wind projects in Denmark, and therefore we are moving parts of our onshore wind production in Ringkøbing to other factories closer to the actual installations,” says Johnny Høy Henriksen, COO for Vestas in Northern and Central Europe.

Vestas currently has more than 6000 employees in Denmark, including around 600 at the factory in Ringkjøbing, where the company produces nacelles.

The company will continue to have a presence in Ringkøbing, which, in addition to the factory, serves as a hub for various functions such as HR, finance, transportation and planning, and research and development.

”It is always difficult to make decisions that negatively affect our talented and hard-working colleagues. We are therefore determined to explore opportunities to relocate affected colleagues in Ringkøbing to minimize the number of redundancies,” says Johnny Høy Henriksen.