Adelaide Advertiser
Tuesday 24/2/2009 Page: 33
THE windfarm industry is providing benefits and jobs throughout South Australia. It includes steady employment growth at RPG (SA) Pty Ltd, Australia's largest integrated wind tower manufacturer. Based at Kilburn in Adelaide, RPG has maintained strong employee growth in the past two years. RPG business manager Alan Church said it made more than 100 wind towers for the fast-growing industry last year.
"We've supplied towers to every major windfarm project in SA since the first one, Starfish Hill near Cape Jervis, in 2003," he said. "Half of our people here are making wind towers and that has enabled us to maintain steady growth, along with our other work," he said. "I've got a desk full of inquiries for various wind farms and we're hopeful that all the gazetted projects will go ahead and provide further work."
Mr Church said RPG was looking at further growth as the windfarm sector continued to expand. "We pride ourselves on our work with various other high-end infrastructure projects such as the Port River Rail Bridge," Mr Church said. Mr Church said each wind tower involved considerable work as they were 87 metres long and weighed up to 150 tonnes.
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