South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding snaps up DeWind for $49m

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Shipmaker aims to be one of the world's largest wind turbine makers by 2020

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has acquired US wind turbine maker DeWind for $49.5m (£30m), in a deal designed to give the company access to the booming global market for renewable...

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