Bilfinger Mars Offshore Plant built on Ostrów Brdowski island and worth over PLN 500 million already has over a year worth of work orders. In July it received a contract to produce 91 indirect platforms for the Race Bank windfarm on the North Sea. Dong Energy, a global leader in the windfarm offshore industry, is the client.

 

The manufacturing will begin in October and the first shipment of ready components is scheduled for June 2016. The contract is going to be completed in December 2016. The produced structures will weigh approximately 30 tons in aggregate and will be more than 2 kilometres long. The contract value is several dozen million euros (the exact amount constitutes a business secret).

 

The plant, which is owned by Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems and MARS Closed-end Investment Fund, is sure to become one of the most important employers in the region. It has already given jobs to almost 200 people and ultimately, it will need circa 500 employees. The plant will manufacture foundations for offshore wind power plants on an ongoing basis.

 

The BMO plant is equipped with the latest machinery which allows it to use innovative technological solutions in the production process. “Our equipment is unique on a European scale. For instance, we have a digital welding robot and automated orbital welding machines. We will soon acquire a giant gantry crane that will be able to lift 1400 tons to a height of 120 m (compare it with the gantry cranes used in Szczecin shipyard which can lift 300 – 450 tons to a height of 80 m),” boasts Szymon Kostiuk, a public relations specialist of Bilfinger Mars Offshore.

 

The components will be sold, among others, to German and British customers.  “It is possible that BMO plant will start cooperating with MSR Gryfia on offshore contracts. MARS holds shares in both entities which may naturally facilitate their business partnership,” says Piotr Słupski, the president of MS TFI which manages MARS.

 

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