voestalpine Anarbeitung GmbH, a subsidiary of the listed voestalpine Group, has been awarded a major contract for the supply of roughly 20,000 tonnes of pre cut heavy plate shapes for Siemens Wind Power for the London Array offshore wind tower project in the United Kingdom. The total sales volume of the contract signed this month amounts to a double digit million euro figure. The delivery project will last for a period of one year.
The heavy plate pre cut shapes are being produced in the ultramodern shape cutting facility of voestalpine Anarbeitung and will be delivered to Siemens Wind Power for the installation of 106 wind towers, each with a capacity of 3.6 MW, as part of the London Array project. The installation of the wind towers will make it possible to achieve a total annual reduction of 560,000 tonnes in CO2 emissions.
During the first phase of the London Array project, the wind park will achieve a power output of roughly 630 MW. When completed, the park is scheduled to generate up to one giga watt of electrical power, enough to supply 750,000 households with environmentally friendly electricity. This corresponds to roughly one fourth of the Greater London power requirement. The first project phase is expected to be completed as early as 2012.
This contract awarded by Siemens Wind Power, a leading international producer of wind energy systems and market leader in the worldwide offshore market, has underlined the success of voestalpine as a supplier of high quality materials for implementation in renewable energy applications.
Mr Adolf Beuer, head of sales voestalpine Anarbeitung GmbH, said that this project has once again been an opportunity for voestalpine to demonstrate its growing significance in future oriented growth markets.
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