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Tata Steel to Supply Profiled Steel Plate for Siemens Wind Towers
01/19/2012 - Tata Steel has secured a contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 tonnes of high-quality profiled steel plate for wind towers, to be delivered between April and September this year.
Tata Steel has secured a contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 tonnes of high-quality profiled steel plate (cut into the desired shape) for wind towers, to be delivered between April and September this year.
The steel will be used to build about 150 onshore wind turbine towers. Tata Steel has already supplied Siemens Wind Power with 6000 tonnes of steel plate for similar developments in the U.K. and Europe.
The order, worth an eight-figure £ sum, is the largest to date for the steel company’s dedicated wind tower hub in Scunthorpe, England.
Phil Knowles, Tata Steel commercial manager for power generation, said: “This major contract, and our position as Siemens Wind Power’s nominated subcontractor, is a direct result of the investment in our Scunthorpe wind tower hub and a great deal of work from the Tata Steel team. The agreement we’ve negotiated with Siemens Wind Power is a strategic customer alliance that will help in our objective to be a key supplier in the offshore wind power market.”
Steel plate will be manufactured at Tata Steel’s plate mills in Scunthorpe, and Dalzell, in Motherwell, Scotland, before being cut to size and edge-profiled at the company’s dedicated wind tower hub in Scunthorpe, which was established in 2010 to process and distribute steel plate to manufacturers of wind turbine towers. It can deliver up to 200,000 tonnes annually.
The steel will be delivered to a fabricator that will form the plate into round sections before they are welded together to form the turbine tower.
Tata Steel expects the arrangement with Siemens Wind Power to open up additional opportunities to supply other steel products such as hot-rolled coil and hollow sections, which are also used in wind turbines.
The European operations of Tata Steel (formerly known as Corus) comprise Europe's second-largest steel producer. With main steelmaking operations in the U.K. and the Netherlands, they supply steel and related services to the construction, automotive, packaging, material handling, and other demanding markets worldwide. Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 28 million tonnes and approximately 80,000 employees across four continents.
