News: MTL Group joins Norwegian Windcluster

MTL Group Ltd has become the first UK company to join Windcluster Mid-Norway, a group of around 40 businesses and research facilities working together to advance industrial and technological development using wind energy.

The contract-manufacturing specialist is placing itself at the heart of the Norwegian wind energy industry as it expands and relocates from its current premises in Sheffield to a new 300,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Rotherham.

As a global supplier of secondary steelwork, MTL Group handle multi-million pound contracts for customers who manufacture large offshore foundation structures for the offshore and renewable energy sectors.

They specialise in high strength steels and are a major supplier of boat landing systems, nacelle bed plates, transition decks and plate girders. MTL is supplying the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm that is currently being built in the Irish Sea, 10km off Barrow-In-Furness.

Constant investment in new equipment means that MTL ha a wide range of facilities including laser, plasma, waterjet and profile cutting and the largest machine can cut up to 20m long x 3.2m x 25mm thick.

Earlier in the year, the group acquired dockside facilities at the port of Blyth with a view to producing large structural fabrications and loading them straight onto vessels and barges. The facilities provide the capability to supply fabrications in excess of 100 tonnes.

Mid-Norway has significant expertise in the offshore industry and has become home to G.E. as they move into the renewable energy industry, in addition to experienced partners, such as Aker Solutions.

Darren Taylor, Business Development Manager at MTL Group said: "We are very pleased to be part of the windcluster and proud to be the first company outside of Norway to be members."

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Windcluster Mid-Norway website

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