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Nordex USA, Inc.
In Gear with New
Employees and Projects
Nordex USA, Inc. officially opened in April of 2000 and has been riding high on
successful projects ever since.
With five wind parks scattered throughout the continent
and more being discussed each week, the North
American branch office hums with activity as it serves customers
throughout the United States and Canada.
Since its debut over two years ago, physical expansion,
personnel growth, and increased sales have characterized
Nordex’ rapid development in North America. Located in Grand
Prairie, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, the office is responsible for
all sales and service activities for all of Nordex’ present and
future customers in North America. John Fedorko, President of
Nordex USA, says “We are genuinely excited to have new staff
members as part of the Nordex USA team. I really should say
“Nordex North America” as the market we serve is both the US
and Canada!” Fedorko commented specifically on the new staff,
“Klaus Obel, the new service manager comes to us with 18 years
of hands-on, practical field experience as both a project and
operations manager. His new assistant, Wolfgang Gloger, has
vast electro-mechanical experience in manufacturing and will
be a quick study for keeping our turbines’ availability optimized.
In addition, Steve Wieland recently joined us in the Sales
Department. Steve comes to Nordex from El Paso Energy, and
I believe his in-depth knowledge of the electricity business and
his electrical engineering degree will make him a great salesperson.
Finally, we have the best support staff around, with new
additions Patricia Lawrence as Office Manager and Marjorie
Asturias as Sales/Project Assistant supplementing the work that
Dorinda Matias does for us administratively in the Service
Department.”
Finally, effective January 1, 2003, Frede Jensen from Nordex
in Europe will join “Nordex North America” full time in Texas
as Director of Project Management/North America. Frede, an
electrical engineer, has vast experience in building wind farms
(he was Project Manager on Nordex’ Pincher Creek Project)
and will also help out with North American equipment procurement.
These employees in the office, as well as those
The Nordex North America team.
important service technicians in the field, keep Nordex USA
in the forefront of wind energy production in North America.
Nordex USA’s latest wind project in Minot, North Dakota,
was fully operational in November (see accompanying article).
Additional personnel to oversee the Minot park has resulted in
further expansion of the Nordex USA team as David Koapke
will be Nordex’ full time service technician for the wind projects
in North and South Dakota.
Nordex USA expects its project load to increase in the next
few years, particularly with the United States Production Tax
Credit set to expire in December of 2003 and the Canadian Wind
Power Production Incentive program lasting for another 5 years.
With this in mind, the Nordex USA team looks forward to exciting
and busy years ahead.
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