Rheine, Germany: Availon announced the opening of their new global headquarters in Rheine. This move is a direct result of the tremendous growth that the wind turbine service provider has recently experienced. Over the last three years, Availon`s workforce almost doubled to reach 380 employees.

“Eight years after establishing Availon, we are opening a new chapter of the company`s story. Following a period of dynamic growth, the time has finally come to move the head office to a bigger, nicer facility. We hope that it will be the right environment to enhance our people`s innovative creativity”, commented CEO Ulrich Schomakers.

“We wanted to stay true to our roots. This is why we decided to maintain the new head office in the German city of Rheine, where people feel at home and in good hands. Our new working environment is resolutely modern and in tune with the times”, explained Availon`s CFO Markus Spitzer.

Availon operates and manages a portfolio of 2,200 MW of wind turbines across the world. This corresponds to a 70 percent growth of the company`s turbine portfolio since summer 2012.

Photo: Availon`s managing partners: Ulrich Schomakers (left) and Markus Spitzer
(Photo: Availon GmbH)

For more information please visit www.availon.eu.

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About Availon: Since its foundation in 2007, Availon has established itself as a leading provider of multi brand wind turbine generator (WTG) services. In addition to focussing on its core market of Germany, the company is also steadily expanding its global strategic position.
The Rheine-based company currently employs a workforce of more than 380 employees in Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Poland, Portugal and the US.
Outside Germany, Availon looks after more than 2,200 MW covered by comprehensive servicing contracts. It also has other modular service or supplier agreements. The companies in the Availon Group consistently align their core areas of expertise with the needs of the international markets.
Availon GmbH`s proactive, all-inclusive service for wind turbines covers the entire operational value creation chain, ranging from remote monitoring, maintenance and spare part supply through to troubleshooting and turbine optimisation. The well-established competence centre in Hamburg also offers the expertise of a number of engineers.
Availon GmbH is the first independent WTG service provider to have been fully certified by DNV-GL for all processes required for service provision.
The Kiel-based Availon subsidiary WPT-Nord GmbH offers specialist material testing to prevent major and cost-intensive repairs.
Availon Energy Management GmbH rounds off the portfolio by offering energy management services, which use cost reductions and holistic yield optimisation to increase the profitability of WTGs.