MABEY Bridge has announced it has secured another major contract to supply wind turbine towers to the Dutch wind turbine company EWT.

The five–year agreement will see Mabey producing steel tubular towers from between 40 to 75 metres high.

The news comes after Mabey won a preferred supplier agreement with REpower, one of the UK's biggest suppliers of wind energy earlier this summer. Nine steel tubular REpower towers are currently being produced at Mabey's £38m Newhouse Farm manufacturing site on the outskirts of Chepstow – a factory which can produce 300 towers a year at full capacity.

The first EWT tower and anchor is already in production at Mabey Bridge for a 500kW turbine destined for a site in Cornwall. 

Alex Smale, UK director of Mabey Bridge, said: "These are exciting times for us at Mabey Bridge. Following the official opening of our new facility in Chepstow we have now signed our second major framework agreement with EWT. Given EWT's global profile we are very pleased by this deal and we are looking forward to working with them.

"EWT are the kind of high profile global player in the wind business that we are looking to do business with. This framework agreement will dovetail alongside our existing arrangements with our other clients including REPower."

EWT is a global manufacturer of direct drive wind turbines with its headquarters and a fully in-house engineering department located in the Netherlands.

Martin Dijkstra, global supply chain manager for EWT, said: "We have been impressed with the level of expertise and standard of finish at Mabey Bridge. We see this as an exciting and fruitful partnership for both Mabey Bridge and EWT. Our framework agreement with Mabey Bridge puts us in the ideal position to do business in the growing UK market."