In stead of being owned by the Japanese company Harakosan, Harakosan Europe is now part of STX Heavy Industries, a Korean company (http://www.stxhi.co.kr/eng/).
The news about this transfer was published in the Chosan Ilbo.
STX Heavy Industries on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement to buy Harakosan Europe B.V., a Dutch wind-power turbine maker, and its wind-power technology patents.
STX Heavy spent W24 billion to acquire the company and will invest an additional W100 billion on building plants and R&D. By obtaining the original technologies for onshore and offshore wind-power turbines, STX Heavy hopes to enhance its position in Korea's wind-power industry.
Read the complete text on their website.
Some information is not quite correct; Founded in 1979, while actually Harakosan Europe was founded in february 2005 after buying the rests of a bankrupt company called Zephyros, that was founded a couple of years before that. The original idea and design for the direct drive wind turbine came from Lagerwey, a company founded by the inventor, mr. Lagerwey. Unfortunately that compnay also went bankrupt. Hopefully under the wings of STX the company will now be able to expand on a larger scale.
One wonders if company name will change into STX The Netherlands ??
UPDATE
News on the take over on http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
and on Steelguru.
Affiliated company in Europe STX Europe ?
On The Harakosan website no news about the take over yet per August 5, 2009
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