COMPANIES When your engineers can build the world’s biggest propeller, making wind turbines is a doddle. Hyundai Heavy Industries knows the real challenge will be selling them.
At the sprawling Hyundai dockyard at Ulsan on the east coast of South Korea, a lone wind turbine beats steadily over the clatter of work, as welders and cutters clamber over towering hulls. It is a reminder that South Korea’s dirty manufacturing base has to create new business, and soon.
