Liebenscheid. Fuhrländer has received a major order:  A long-time customer from Ukraine has ordered 20 wind energy plants of the 2,5 megawatt type. The customer is Maxim Efimov, the CEO of a major metal processing enterprise in the Ukraine. Efimov has a proven history and relationship due to a long standing joint venture with Fuhrländer. The Ukraine is an important market for Wind energy plants, as the country has been  promoting renewable energies due to the lessons of Tschernobyl.

Together with the project developer Windreich AG, Efimov is evaluating all aspects and opportunities for a deeper and broader cooperation with Fuhrländer. Windreich is known for its experience in offshore windparks and is going to project more than 200 wind energy plants mainly in the South-Western part of Germany.

At a meeting with employees in Liebenscheid, Germany, Efimov said: “We got the opportunity to present our technology to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during the Industrial Fair in Hannover. We are looking ahead with great confidence to make use of the opportunities of the German energy policy turnaround.”

Yesterday it was announced that Joachim Fuhrländer has left the company’s board. He has been replaced as CEO by Werner Heer.

The advisory board’s chairman, former state prime minister and federal minister Rudolf Scharping, expressed his thanks to the employees and the state. Additionally, he thanked the company’ founder Joachim Fuhrländer: “The company’s name and the trade mark will stay!”.

The workers council’s chairwoman, Ursula Zander, expressed the thanks of the employees and named CEO Heer and the advisory board’s chairman Scharping: “We are so glad that we are able to start working with full power again!”