Articles September 3rd 2020
We “sat down” (online meeting) with Teemu Hyytiäinen, Vice President of Commercial Operations, to hear about his just over 10-year journey at Moventas.
Teemu began his career path at Moventas in 2008, starting off from Moventas’ logistics department. Since 2011 he has worked in several roles throug...
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Articles May 25th 2020
20 years of Moventas expertise
Pertti Penttinen, Moventas’ Head of Engineering, began his career at Moventas in 1999, and has been working in wind turbine gearbox engineering since then. Pertti has worked as a Designer, Project Manager, and since 2015, he has been leading the Moventas Engineering t...
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Articles March 3rd 2020
30 years of Moventas expertise
Mirja Ilola, or Milli, as we at Moventas are used to calling her, began her career as a summer employee at Moventas in 1986.
Today, Mirja has gained 30 years of experience with gears, wind gears, and spare parts.
These years have included many different roles an...
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Articles January 30th 2020
40 years of Moventas expertise
Heikki Salminen, Moventas Chief Prototype Test Engineer, has respectable 40 years of experience at Moventas. Heikki began his career in the company in 1976 and has ever since been an important part of our Moventas team.
Testing is nothing new to Heikki, as he has b...
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Articles September 5th 2019
Windpower Monthly, in collaboration with Moventas, hosted a roundtable discussion on gearbox innovation at WindEurope 2019. With industry experts from General Electric, Acciona, Siemens Gamesa, ABB, Innogy, Windpower Monthly, and Wood MacKenzie, the different stages in the supply chain were represen...
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Articles August 29th 2019
Windpower Monthly, in collaboration with Moventas, hosted a roundtable discussion on gearbox innovation at WindEurope 2019. With industry experts from General Electric, Acciona, Siemens Gamesa, ABB, Innogy, Windpower Monthly, and Wood MacKenzie, the different stages in the supply chain were represen...
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Articles August 19th 2019
Windpower Monthly, in collaboration with Moventas, hosted a roundtable discussion on wind gearbox innovation at WindEurope 2019. With industry experts from General Electric, Acciona, Siemens Gamesa, ABB, Innogy, Windpower Monthly, and Wood MacKenzie, the different stages in the supply chain were rep...
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Articles July 4th 2019
Moventas is a wind turbine gearbox expert and a technology leader with 40 years of experience in the wind energy industry. As a gearbox OEM and multi-brand service provider, Moventas has in-depth expert knowledge of gearbox behavior, including non-Moventas gearbox models. We are happy to help wind f...
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Articles June 18th 2019
Our 3.6MW Full Load Test Bench, the first of its kind in the region, was commissioned in 2016 at the Moventas Huddersfield location, and has been providing the local market with much-needed load testing capabilities ever since.
The Huddersfield 3.6 full assembly test bench is the first and only of ...
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Articles March 14th 2019
Even if wind as a resource is free, wind turbines still require an effective operations and maintenance schedule. Condition monitoring systems (CMS) have been widely used in the industrial and transport industries for decades. CMS technology has entered the wind energy industry in the past ten years...
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Articles February 20th 2019
Wind turbine gearboxes are a key component in wind turbines, which places high quality requirements on them. In the fast growing market for wind power systems, quality assurance has a crucial role. Therefore, supply chain management isa key focus area in all industries that operate and manufacture a...
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Articles January 31st 2019
Bearings are a critical component of wind turbine gearbox operation. Exposure to high loads during operation means bearing solutions represent a crucial role in gearbox reliability. For quite some time now, journal bearings, also known as plain bearings, have already been successfully applied in oth...
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