The Navarra-based wind technology company, part of the Australian group Fortescue since 2025, has grown from around 90 to 125 employees and opened new offices in Pamplona. Its solutions are already in use in Australia, Namibia, China, France, Argentina, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Spain.
A new chapter backed by Fortescue
Nabrawind by Fortescue Zero has opened its new offices on Avenida Carlos III in Pamplona, in the former Caja Navarra headquarters. The company described the event as “the beginning of a new chapter in its history” and also unveiled its new corporate identity. The opening was attended by the President of Navarra, María Chivite; Regional Ministers Mikel Irujo and Juan Luis García; Melinda Gray, Group Manager People at Fortescue; and Eneko Sanz, Founder and CEO of Nabrawind.
Ten years after the company was founded, joining Fortescue has strengthened its financial, industrial and operational capacity. “We are still Nabrawind, with the same innovative DNA and the same base in Navarra, but with the ability to deliver large-scale projects anywhere in the world thanks to Fortescue’s backing,” said Sanz.
Growth rooted in Navarra
Pamplona remains the heart of the business, and much of the manufacturing of its tower and blade installation systems takes place in Navarra and neighbouring regions. Half of the team trained at universities in Navarra, and all 37 of the company’s patent families are registered in the region. SODENA invested in Nabrawind in 2016, while the company was still at an early stage of technological development. It then supported the company for nine years through its growth and international expansion, until it joined Fortescue.
According to Chivite, Nabrawind’s journey “shows both how Navarra’s renewable energy industry has evolved and how important innovation, public-private partnership and internationalisation are in generating high value-added industrial activity”.
Navarra technology across five continents
In Australia, Nabrawind is supplying seventeen Nabralift self-erecting towers, with a hub height of 188 metres, for the 133 MW wind farm Fortescue is developing in Nullagine. In Namibia, at InnoVent’s wind farm in Diaz, the Skylift system installs turbines without large cranes, even in winds of 15 m/s. Nabrabase foundations, which cut concrete use by up to 80%, have also been installed at the same site.
The company also has a Nabralift tower in France and a 188-metre prototype in Sheyang, China. Its BladeRunner units operate in Argentina, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Spain.
Source: Navarra Capital