Vestas attracts Danish company to Fort Lupton

FORT LUPTON – Bach Composite Industry, a Danish manufacturer of composite wind turbine components, will build its first North American facility in Fort Lupton. The factory will eventually employ 100 to 150 workers.

Bach’s new facility will use a sophisticated manufacturing process to make composite products for wind energy customers such as Brighton-based Vestas Nacelles America Inc. Vestas also has a turbine blade manufacturing facility in Windsor.

The announcement of the new facility, which will be located in the former Colorado Railcar building in Fort Lupton and begin production in early 2010, was made Wednesday by Gov. Bill Ritter, state economic development…