The Macksville-based company has recently trained Australian soldiers to build windmills in Afghanistan. Over the last 18 months, six windmills have been sent over, with more expected to be supplied over the next 12 months.

Afghanistan is just one of the new locations the company is servicing, with contracts to Malaysia, Cambodia and China.

The eight-person company was brought into the Valley from Sydney through a government and council initiative, and owner Darren Fitzgerald said he was pleased with how the business had moved forward in the five years since it relocated.

With a focus on renewable energies building across the world, Mr Fitzgerald said it was a good time to expand the business to new markets. In tough economic times, he said he was pleased that this local company was one to be bucking the down-turn.

Each windmill takes around a month to manufacture at the Macksville Industrial site. In the case of the windmills going to Afghanistan, soldiers then visited the site so they could be taught how to erect them quickly in areas where Australians were helping with the reconstruction effort.

The company is currently investigating options for offering windmills for export to India, the USA and Peru.