German steel company Dillinger has agreed a new investment with its Steelwind Nordenham subsidiary to expand production for XXL monopiles.
The €56.5m investment will allow for the production of super heavy steel sheets to enable the production of monopiles with less welding seams, the company said.
Dillinger is therefore modernising its blast furnace at the Dillingen mill.
Steelwind Nordenham will also be able to significantly increase manufacturing capacities and productivity by expanding the bearing surfaces and optimising the shell casing to produce a larger number of monopile segments at higher bulk weights, it added.
Dillinger chief technology officer Karl-Ulrich Kohler said: “Dillinger and Steelwind Nordenham make an important contribution with their products to achieving the desired climate goals in Europe and worldwide."