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DeWind

DeWind was an internationally active producer of wind power plants, originating in Germany. The company was founded in 1995 as Private Limited Company (GmbH) in Luebeck, Germany by seven shareholders. Five of them actively worked in the company. In 2002 the founders sold 100% of the shares to FKI Plc, Loughborough, UK. It was based in Irving, Texas, and Hamburg, Germany. DeWind had the legal form of a corporation, and, since September 2009, it had been a subsidiary company of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), a large shipbuilder based in Korea. Manufacturing took place in Lübeck and Round Rock, Texas. More than 900 DeWind turbines have been erected worldwide, with a total capacity of over 1600 MW. The company was since 2015 in liquidation and was deleted in the German Trade Register in December 2017.

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DeWind was an internationally active producer of wind power plants, originating in Germany. The company was founded in 1995 as Private Limited Company (GmbH) in Luebeck, Germany by seven shareholders. Five of them actively worked in the company. In 2002 the founders sold 100% of the shares to FKI Plc, Loughborough, UK. It was based in Irving, Texas, and Hamburg, Germany. DeWind had the legal form of a corporation, and, since September 2009, it had been a subsidiary company of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), a large shipbuilder based in Korea. Manufacturing took place in Lübeck and Round Rock, Texas. More than 900 DeWind turbines have been erected worldwide, with a total capacity of over 1600 MW. The company was since 2015 in liquidation and was deleted in the German Trade Register in December 2017.

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  1. date of foundation: 1995 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1995". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366344955

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