Roermond, 29 November 2024. Sif Holding announces that it successfully manufactured the first of 54 monopiles for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 wind project on the new production line of the expanded production facilities at Maasvlakte 2 Rotterdam. The first monopile for Empire Wind was completed on 28 November 2024.
In February 2023 Sif took FID to invest €328 million in expansion of its production facilities at Maasvlakte 2 Rotterdam. Empire Offshore Wind committed €50 million in advanced factory payments to the financing of the project and became a launching client for the investment program. The expansion works were executed on time and on budget. In August 2024 Sif announced that the first of three production lines of the expanded facilities was taken in operation. Transition pieces for Empire Wind are being manufactured in Sif’s Roermond facilities.
The monopiles and transition pieces for Empire Wind 1 will be manufactured in Q1 2025 and shipped to the USA for installation offshore New York.
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It is with great pleasure that we could deliver the first of 54 monopiles for Empire Wind 1 to our client Equinor. Thanks to the efforts of everyone involved, we have achieved this important step in Sif’s history. We will now focus on getting the facilities up-to-speed to manufacture approximately 200 monopiles per year. It makes me proud to see that the quality of the first product is very good and that measurement is widely within tolerances. The new facilities enhance Sif’s position as market leader in offshore wind energy foundations and will contribute largely to the energy transition from fossil to clean energies.”
- Fred van Beers, CEO of Sif Holding
Sif Holding
Sif offers total solutions for the design and production of foundations for offshore wind farms, including logistics services and marshalling. Sif traditionally serves the markets of Northwestern Europe and is working on a global presence. Sif combines two highly automated and flexible production facilities in Roermond and Rotterdam (Second Maasvlakte) with technological leadership in the field of rolling and welding of heavy steel plates, based on 75 years of experience and innovative self-developed techniques and processes. Sif mainly produces monopiles, transition parts and piles with which jacket foundations for wind turbines can be anchored in the seabed.
Sif Holding N.V.
Fons van Lith
+31 (0)475 385 777
+31 (0)6 513 14952
f.vanlith@sif-group.com
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