Innovative Manufacturing Strategies for Offshore Wind Foundations

Salzgitter AG and Bilfinger Mars Offshore have together created a strategy to address a step change in foundation cost reduction through the use of a sustainable industrial supply chain for Jacket foundation manufacturing. This cost reduction has been achieve through the development of an innovative, production focused, standardized Jacket design that combines the utilization of Salzgitter´s unique standard tube portfolio and the implementation of automatically welded, prefabricated components, during serial productionat the cutting edge manufacturing plant of Bilfinger Mars Offshore. This manufacturing strategy is forecast to deliver a cost reduction in the Jacket structure of more than 30%.

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