The Meyer Group, which incorporates Neptun Werft in Warnemünde, Germany, is becoming a member of forces with the Belgian firm Smulders to construct offshore converter platforms on the Warnemünde web site. The 2 firms will collectively type Neptun Smulders Offshore Renewables and Neptun Smulders Engineering, which can take over the design and manufacture of the platforms.
The contemplated three way partnership is at the moment nonetheless topic to regulatory approval from the competitors authorities and is anticipated to be operational throughout the first quarter of 2024, stated the businesses.
The brand new firm is claimed to create as much as 100 jobs in Warnemünde.
The collaboration between Neptun Werft and Smulders will allow Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to make a contribution to Germany’s inexperienced power provide and create strategic manufacturing capacities with native worth creation and jobs in Germany, in accordance with the businesses.
Neptun Werft’s manufacturing areas are additionally being tailored to the brand new enterprise phase. To this finish, the corporate has bought the previous web site of the engine producer Caterpillar, which is immediately adjoining to the Neptun Werft web site.
As well as, a part of the neighboring marine arsenal might be utilized by Neptun Smulders Offshore Renewables sooner or later.
“We may even proceed to spend money on the Warnemünde web site and adapt the shipyard amenities to the necessities of converter platform building, for instance the marina amenities and crane capacities,” stated Jan Meyer.
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“Sooner or later, we wish to go even additional and, for instance, convert surplus power from wind farms into hydrogen or different e-fuels. This may allow us to provide trade on land and delivery with local weather impartial power sources. The MEYER Group and its companions can even develop and construct the mandatory tankers,” stated Malte Poelmann, Chief Know-how Officer of the Meyer Group.
Neptun Werft has constructed greater than 65 river cruise ships for nationwide and worldwide clients during the last 20 years.
With regards to Smulders, the corporate, a subsidiary of Eiffage, provides companies starting from design and manufacture to finish turnkey options (EPCI) for transformer platforms and foundations. Smulders operates throughout six places in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and Poland.
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