Steel for the energy transition: the Borssele III and IV offshore wind farm builds on heavy plate from Dillinger
The 77 wind turbines of Borssele III and IV, with a capacity of 730 MW, will supply approximately 825,000 Dutch households per year with environmentally friendly electricity, reducing more than 1 million tons of carbon emissions. The wind turbines are each mounted on 85-meter-long monopiles weighing 1,280 tons, at water depths between 16 and 38 meters. Dillinger supplied around 70,000 tons of thermomechanically rolled heavy plate for the monopile foundation structures, with plate thicknesses ranging from 12.7 to 88 mm. Some of the slabs reached recordbreaking weights of more than 42 tons.
Aktien-Gesellschaft der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger), founded in 1685, is a world leader today in the manufacture of premium heavy plate steel. The Dillinger Group employs a total of around 7,300 people and has an annual turnover of around two billion euros. High-tech plate from Dillinger is used to realize extraordinary and technically sophisticated projects all over the globe, including in the areas of steel construction, engineering, offshore, offshore wind power, and line pipe and boiler construction. More information can be found at www.dillinger.de.
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