SBT has been founded in 2001, currently existing of 45 Fte’s, and pioneers in the application of composites in the rotorblade industry. SBT works in close cooperation with Suzlon ENERGY Ltd, situated in India, the number 5 on world market of windturbines, which has an substantial annual growth. Up to 2003, Suzlon has been mainly active in their home market India, and is currently in the process of expanding their activities on a turnkey based business approach of wind parks on a worldwide scale.

Suzlon started in 1994 and currently has Manufactoring Units (MU’s) for composite products in:

• Daman appr. 200 km above Mumbai (department of Garujat)– western coast.
• Pondicherry appr. 200 km beneath Chennai (department of Tamilnadu)- eastern coast.
• Baroda 400 km north of Mumbai (dept. of Garujat) and situated about 50 km from western coast.
This is also where SBT Baroda resides, with 300 Fte’s – a product development (BDU) and tooling facility and provides support to all production plants (MU’s). .
• Dulia appr. 300 km north-east of Mumbai (department of Maharashtra) western coast.
• Gandhinagar appr . 50 km north west of Baroda (department of Gujarat).
• In 2006 new MU’s in China (region Beijing) and USA (Pipestone, Minnesota).

Within Suzlon, SBT is responsible for the department of composites (currently +- 2500 FTE’s) and globally manages the entire spectrum of activities, onward from R&D, het technical product design, selection of materials and production processes, the design – engineering- and production of tooling, serial production of rotorblades and nacelles, as well as the worldwide service & maintenance of composite products.

The design, R&D and the project management of aspects of the standard rotorblades are controlled by SBT Hengelo. The organization charactarizes itself in human resources by use of highly skilled professionals who carry out their specialisms in dedicated project teams, within a formal line-staff organization.

This means for Hengelo, that as far as rotorblades is concerned, we provide the aerodynamic and structural design, the selection of materials and compounds, and focus on management of all projects and processes. SBT Hengelo also manages the Baroda BDU and the MU's. Furthermore we supervise the production of the first test blade and prototype set, and take care of certification. The operation of full scale testing is being executed in co-operation with the WMC/TU Delft. In 2008, SBT will facilitate a fully operational and certified testcenter in Baroda, providing active partnerships with internationally acclaimed institutes and universities in the field.

Since founded in 2001, SBT’s mission is, apart from forementioned design and R&D activities, to create and manage a full scale operation, consisting of a Business Development Unit (BDU) and several Manufacturing Units (MU) as is done in India.

The SBT Baroda branche operates as a BDU and tooling workshop, both engineering as well as manufacturing all required tooling to make a high-end serial production of blades possible, and supplying these – as a product – to the several MU’s.

As has been realised in Daman, Pondicherry, Baroda, Dulia and Gandhinagar, the MU’s are subsequently able to produce the standard rotorblades, employing domestic personell, entirely managed by the MUST team of Hengelo, visiting and inspecting the processes on a regular and continuous basis to ensure constant focus on improvements. Such is done by a skilled team of professionals, residing in the local MU’s frequently and structurally.

SBT Hengelo will structurally continue to provide R&D, standardization and project management for the entire SBT organization. It’s goal is to keep the present forefront market position in the composite technology for the wind turbine industry, hereby remaining faithful to the business doctrine of Suzlon.

SBT is and remains involved in marketing and R&D aspects of the mother company.

Suzlon Energy Ltd. has a small representative office in Amsterdam, a marketing branche office in Aarhus, Denmark and a R&D facility for turbines, in Rostock, Germany.