About Us

Welcome

Welcome to the website of Hansen Transmissions International, an established global wind turbine and industrial gearbox designer, manufacturer and supplier, with a leading position (by MW supplied) in the wind turbine gearbox market. Founded in 1923 to supply the industrial gearbox market, Hansen has since 1979 increasingly focused on the supply of gearboxes to the growing wind energy generation sector.

In addition to wind turbine gearboxes, Hansen Transmissions supplies drive solutions for a wide range of industrial applications in industries such as the chemicals, energy, material handling, environmental, extraction, pulp and paper, steel and metal, food and beverage, and construction, including such areas as bucket elevators, car crushers, cement kilns, conveyor systems, industrial mixers, paper mills, pulpers, and water treatment systems like aerator drives, screw pump drives and brush aerator drives for waste water treatment plants.

Next to its principal manufacturing facilities in Belgium - comprising a wind turbine and industrial gearbox plant in Edegem and a fully integrated state-of-the-art dedicated wind turbine gearbox manufacturing facility in Lommel - Hansen has a +95.000mē production plant in Coimbatore, India and a 29,000mē assembly and testing plant for wind turbine gearboxes for the Chinese market in the Beichen Hi-tech Industrial park in Tianjin.

To respond to demand from our wind turbine customers as well as the forecast increase in global demand for wind energy generally, we are taking steps to increase our manufacturing capabilities from 7,300MW per annum in the financial year 2009 to 14,300MW in the financial year 2013.

Our expertise in the design and production of gearboxes has resulted in high quality products and efficient manufacturing processes. Our tailor-made wind turbine gearboxes have low noise and vibration levels and high torque density and power to weight ratios. We have strong in-house testing and quality control capabilities and devote significant resources to our research and development operations to maintain and enhance our technological leadership.

The Wind Energy Market

The wind energy market has grown significantly the last decade and is expected to continue to grow with BTM Consult Aps (BTM) forecasting growth in global cumulative installed wind power capacity from 160 GW at the end of 2009 to 975 GW at the end of 2020.