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TATA STEEL & SIEMENS WORK TOGETHER
The order – the largest to date for the steel company’s dedicated wind tower hub in Scunthorpe, England – is worth an eight figure pound sum and establishes Tata Steel as a key supplier to Siemens Wind Power.
The company will deliver 25,000 tonnes of profiled plate, cut into the desired shape, between April and September 2012 and will be used to build about 150 onshore wind turbine towers.
PREVIOUS BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Tata Steel has already supplied Siemens Wind Power with 6,000 tonnes of steel plate for similar developments in the UK and Europe.
Scunthorpe Plate Mill
Tata Steel has secured a major contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 tonnes of high quality profiled steel plate for wind towers.
Phil Knowles, Tata Steel Commercial Manager for power generation, said: “Demand for steel in the renewable energy sector
will continue to grow, and we’re ideally placed to help our customers tap into this important opportunity.
“This major contract, and our position as Siemens Wind Power’s nominated sub contractor, is a direct result of the investment in our Scunthorpe wind tower hub and a great deal of work from the Tata Steel team.
“The agreement we’ve negotiated with Siemens Wind Power is a strategic customer alliance that will help in our objective to be a key supplier in the offshore wind power market.”
The steel plate will be manufactured at Tata Steel’s plate mills in Scunthorpe, and
NEW VESSELS TO BE BUILT IN HULL TO SERVE OFFSHORE WIND FARMS
A Hull shipyard is to build and operate a fleet of vessels to serve giant offshore wind farms planned for the North Sea.
MMS Ship Repair will both construct and run the boats, which will transfer technicians and equipment to the wind turbines.
SHUTTLE SERVICE
apable of carrying 12 passengers, the vessels would be able to run a “shuttle service” between the shore and the sites where hundreds of turbines are to be installed.
MULTI-MILLION POUND PROJECT The multi-million pound project will see as many as six vessels, up to 24 metres in length, built by MMS – with the first ready for operation in approximately a year.
The design of the vessels is to be unveiled at a special event at the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber and Rob Langton, Managing Director of MMS, said the boats will meet the needs of the area’s rapidly- developing offshore wind energy industry.
“We started looking at this project 12 months ago. These vessels will have a unique design and will be much larger than most current boats – being purpose-built for the type of wind farms planned for the North Sea, which are further out from shore.
“The vessels will work much like a shuttle service and MMS will also crew the boats, so they will be operated by highly- experienced local seamen.”
LOCATION Established in 1988, MMS is based at Alexandra Dock, overlooking the Green Port Hull development – the site earmarked for a proposed Siemens wind turbine factory.
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If approved, the plant will assemble turbines for the so-called Round Three, North Sea, wind farms, which are just 12 hours’ sailing time from the Humber.
Mr Langton said: “The Green Port Hull project and Round Three wind farms are the inspiration for the offshore transfer vessels.
“We have the perfect position, geographically – in Hull – and also the right experience and skills to build, operate and maintain these vessels as the offshore wind industry and supply chain grows around us in the Humber area.”
JOB CREATION Up to 50 new jobs could be created through the project, including apprentice positions. This will add to the company’s existing workforce of 70 people.
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