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Bladt Industries Will Supply The Foundations For Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm
11 February 2014
Danish Bladt Industries and German EEW Special Pipe Constructions will supply the foundations for Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm in the United States, to be located on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Both companies hold strong experience and have manufactured foundations for offshore wind parks all across Europe and both companies are market leaders within their field of business. Bladt Industries and EEW SPC have fabricated well over 1,000 foundations each – and among these a total of 500 foundations have been manufactured in close cooperation between the two companies. Many have been for Siemens 3.6 MW turbines.
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Cape Wind will have a size of 468 MW when fully built. The monopiles and transition pieces will be manufactured and shipped to Cape Wind’s staging port. Production start will be January 2015. The monopiles will be produced at EEW’s facilities in Rostock, Germany and the transition pieces at Bladt Industries’ facilities in Aalborg, Denmark.
“We will contribute with our expertise within the field and we know that our many years of experience will be valuable for this project”, says Division Manager of Bladt Industries Morten Mørk.
Bladt Industries and EEW SPC are looking forward to contributing to the success of the first offshore wind farm in the United States and hope that this will be the start of a new market.
“There is no doubt that as market leaders our joint venture will deliver the best foundation solution possible for the project”, adds Karl Klös-Hein, Managing Director of EEW Special Pipe Constructions.
Source: Bladt Industries
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