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£8 MILLION WIND ENERGY INVESTMENT
TAG Energy Solutions has invested £8 million in state of the art manufacturing equipment for its new offshore wind tubular production facility.
The equipment is being installed in the £20 million facility on the banks of the River Tees at Haverton Hill, Billingham, which is now online for production.
Constructed in readiness for the Round 3 offshore wind developments, the facility is the first of its kind in the UK and recruitment is underway for the first tranche of a 100-strong core workforce. A further 300 jobs are expected to be created to meet future contract demand.
Sourced from specialist manufacturers from around the world, the equipment form component parts of the innovative automated steel tubular production process designed by TAG. Once operational, the system has the potential to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Created to roll and weld large diameter tubulars used in the construction of offshore windmill jacket and monopile foundations, the facility has the capacity to
produce 100,000 Tonnes of tubulars per annum.
Among the new arrivals are two steel rolling machines manufactured by Davi in Italy, the very latest Air Liquide welding equipment from France. TAG has also invested in cranes from UK company, Kone and a flipping table from Garrandale in Derbyshire.
TAG has also sourced two Suprarex cutting systems from Andover-based ESAB Cutting Systems, which have been manufactured in Germany along with manipulators from Singapore.
Alex Dawson (pictured), Chief Executive of TAG Energy Solutions, said: “We have sourced the finest, most cutting-edge equipment on the market to create a unique automated system, which will effectively serve the offshore wind turbine industry.”
And concluded “We are currently building our presence in the European market and our innovative manufacturing process is attracting positive attention on the continent. The facility will soon be online and will be well-placed to form a reliable and strong link in the offshore wind industry supply chain.”
TAG Energy Solutions
www.tagenergysolutions.com
MTL GROUP AWARDED MAJOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLES CONTRACT
MTL Group, one of Europe’s leading project manufacturing companies has been awarded a multimillion pound contract to supply 97 boat landing systems to a leading European foundations manufacturer for a German offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
Specialising in batch fabrications with the ability to manufacture structures up to 400 tonnes in weight, MTL Group is one of the fastest growing project manufacturing specialists in the metals sector and is the UK’s leading secondary steelwork supplier of boat landing systems who also supply working platforms, plate beams and nodes.
KONECRANES UK’S INDUSTRIAL CRANE DIVISION SUPPLIED THE NEW TAG FACILITY WITH 4 CRANES FITTED WITH MAGNETS AND HOOKS WHICH ARE NOW OPERATIONAL. TWO 55 TONNE AND TWO 30 TONNE CRANES ARE OPERATING ON A 32 METRE SPAN.
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