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06 Major North Sea Port Manufacturing

26 Cost Effective 28 Tees Valley Lifestyle
Solutions 30 Help for Your
27 Choice of Premises Next Move

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Offshore Wind Opportunities
CONTeNTS The UK is one of the most exciting offshore wind markets in the world and is the
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities
03 Tees Valley Offshore
focus of many international players. The huge developments off the east coast
Wind Advantages present significant opportunities for key industrial hubs such as Tees Valley.
04 Overview of Tees Valley
06 Major North Sea Port
tees Valley has all the ingredients to sector, including Gamesa’s plans to materials and shortages of vessels. these
07 Workforce of Engineers become a location of choice for the develop an offshore wind hub in bottlenecks are a reflection of the fact
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain offshore wind industry. the existing scotland and siemens decision to locate that the uK does not currently have a
11 Who’s Here strengths in offshore and subsea work, a major manufacturing facility in Hull. complete supply chain for the offshore
as well as a proven track record in wind sector and is evidence of the market
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing the proximity of tees Valley, equidistant
delivering large-scale civil and marine opportunities that clearly exist here.
between the Humber and scotland,
21 Centres of Excellence engineering projects, puts the area in a
offers a host of opportunities to add
24 Local Support strong position. the extensive facilities of
value to these and other projects.
an expanding deep-water port complex, the Crown estate
26 Cost-effective Solutions coupled with the availability of large indeed, George Rafferty, chief executive welcomes the recent
27 Choice of Premises parcels of industrial land, are of great of business development organisation commitments by several
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle interest to the offshore wind oeMs. for the energy industries, noF energy, manufacturers to locate on
said the siemens project could generate
30 Help for Your Next Move tees Valley has the potential to attract the east coast of the uK and
big opportunities for tees Valley’s
all aspects of the offshore wind supply-
manufacturing and energy supply chains.
see this as the starting point
chain including electrical and mechanical for a number of key decisions
components, structures, cabling, “Businesses here will undoubtedly happening in the coming
operations and maintenance providers. benefit as result of this... it’s a clear months. We are hopeful that
statement of confidence that a major the tees Valley will be
tees Valley is in pole position to serve the
international company has in uK offshore
Dogger Bank - one of the largest wind- seeing its share of the
wind. it will give confidence to other
farm zones, some 60 miles off the north-
potential investors about the strength of potential business.
east coast – as well as offshore wind
the sector.” adrian Fox, Supply Chain Manager,
projects worldwide.
the offshore wind industry faces a The Crown estate
in early 2011, a number of major
number of challenges such as the
announcements demonstrated the
emergence of bottlenecks for certain
opportunities in the uK offshore wind

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Tees Valley Offshore Wind advantages
CONTeNTS The planned development of the Crown Estate Round 3 offshore wind zones
around the UK provide a particular opportunity for companies to tap into a
Wind Advantages growing offshore wind supply chain in Tees Valley, and the wider North East.
Basing your operation in tees Valley will strong support from local education
07 Workforce of Engineers allow you to reach all the major north institutions and other research
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain sea offshore wind zones on the east establishments
11 Who’s Here coast of the uK.
Proximity to Centres of excellence and Investment in
the tees Valley has a number of key R&D hubs for offshore wind
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing
assets to support the offshore wind offshore wind in
21 Centres of Excellence local business support and specialist
24 Local Support
supply-chain:
industrial development organisations the Tees Valley in
26 Cost-effective Solutions
First class industrial port facilities at
Already a key offshore wind location 2010/11 totals over
teesport and Hartlepool
27 Choice of Premises with the Round 1 teesside offshore £70 million
Available fabrication, laydown and Wind Farm
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle quayside facilities suitable for major
local companies already servicing
30 Help for Your Next Move manufacturing projects
offshore wind projects across europe
World-class manufacturing base in
Cost competitive location translates to
the process and offshore oil and gas
some of the lowest operating costs in
industries
the uK
Workforce of engineers with the
in short, the natural strengths and
transferable skills needed in offshore
assets of this geographical area, along
wind
with its proximity to offshore wind farm
First class transport and logistics development zones, mean the tees
infrastructure, including excellent road, Valley is well-placed to become an
rail, air and sea links offshore wind energy hub.

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Overview of Tees Valley
CONTeNTS Tees Valley is located in North East England, ideally
positioned between Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle.
Wind Advantages It includes the towns of Darlington, Hartlepool,
Middlesbrough, Redcar and Stockton, but has a Edinburgh
07 Workforce of Engineers wider sphere of influence extending to the entire Glasgow
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain North East and Yorkshire.
Newcastle
11 Who’s Here
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing Tees Valley
21 Centres of Excellence
24 Local Support
Leeds
27 Choice of Premises
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle Liverpool
Hartlepool Manchester
30 Help for Your Next Move

Billingham Birmingham
Redcar

Stockton-on-Tees Middlesbrough
Darlington
Thornaby- Guisborough Cardiff
on-Tees
Bristol London
Eaglescliffe
Yarm

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Overview of Tees Valley
CONTeNTS the population of the sub-region has
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities been increasing steadily in recent years Population within 30 minutes and one hour drive time of Tees Valley - 2010
and in 2010 reached over 660,000,
making up about one quarter of that of total population Working population total population Working population
Wind Advantages
the north east region. the catchment within 30 mins within 30 mins within 1 hour within 1 hour
04 Overview of Tees Valley area population of the sub-region,
06 Major North Sea Port however, is significantly higher, with Darlington 854,000 524,100 2,745,000 1,700,200
07 Workforce of Engineers up to one million people within thirty
minutes drive time from its main centres Hartlepool 1,076,200 668,300 2,619,700 1,625,000
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain
and 2.7 million within an hours drive.
11 Who’s Here Middlesbrough 906,300 553,500 2,766,100 1,718,600
the local road network is excellent and
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing uncongested with the fastest flowing
21 Centres of Excellence traffic in the country, something which stockton 1,009,400 615,700 2,776,100 1,718,600
24 Local Support enables average commuting times
of just 22 minutes. Redcar 588,200 361,700 1,633,100 1,007,000
27 Choice of Premises Darlington’s railway station is part of source: tVu, 2010
the main east coast rail network and
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle provides rapid connections southwards
30 Help for Your Next Move to london and northwards to Glasgow
and edinburgh in a little over two hours.
Durham tees Valley Airport offers flights
to a wide variety of major destinations Tees Valley
across the uK and europe including
Amsterdam and Aberdeen.
has the
fastest-flowing
urban traffic
speeds in the UK

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Major North Sea Port
CONTeNTS the biggest opportunities in the
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities european offshore wind industry can be CaSe STUDY
found in the north sea – so having one
Wind Advantages
of the largest ports on the east coast to PD Ports and Teesport
serve this market is a huge opportunity.
06 Major North Sea Port tees Valley’s coastal waters and rivers
offer: PD Ports is a leading uK ports business offering end to end
07 Workforce of Engineers supply-chain solutions.
Cost effective alternative to road
transport for the movement of freight the sea. teesport handles over 6,000
11 Who’s Here ships a year and is strongly associated
Access to shipping freight consolidation
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing and management experts, giving with petrochemicals, manufacturing and
21 Centres of Excellence you additional support for your engineering. the estate is rail-connected
warehousing and stock control needs and close to the A66 trans-Pennine route,
24 Local Support
and to other major trunk roads. Facilities
26 Cost-effective Solutions Fourth largest port in the uK, which include two container quays and ‘roll-on
27 Choice of Premises incorporates the only deep sea port roll off’ facilities.
on the east coast capable of taking
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle vessels up to 150,000 tonnes, with Already home to major international
30 Help for Your Next Move direct access to sea in 30 minutes companies such as Hereema and JDR
PD Ports owns and operates the Ports of cables, Victoria Harbour in Hartlepool
the opportunity to use teesport as a offers over 120 hectares (200 acres) of
tees and Hartlepool (known as teesport),
distribution hub prime seafront land. owned by PD Ports
a major deep sea complex at the heart
Regular container and goods services, of the industrial tees Valley. the port is and linking the Headland and the Marina,
giving access to europe, Asia and the the uK’s fourth largest port by tonnage the site provides a prime opportunity to
Mediterranean and covers an area of 200 hectares (490 support the delivery of new port-related
acres) of land along the southern bank of industries, such as offshore wind, and
the River tees. At its heart is tees Dock, act as a home for expanding engineering
a deep-water facility some 5 miles from companies.

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Workforce of engineers
CONTeNTS Around a million and a half people of working age can be found within 30 miles of
Tees Valley. Whilst the local workforce is undoubtedly hardworking, putting in more
Wind Advantages overtime than any other part of the UK, and very loyal (one of the lowest turnover
rates in the country), it’s the skills that keep companies coming to the area.
07 Workforce of Engineers Further education
tees Valley has more trade over 7,000 students enrol in the five tees Valley further education
11 Who’s Here apprenticeships and employees engineering courses in the tees Valley colleges (Darlington College, Hartlepool
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing undertaking training than the uK each year and engineering features College, Middlesbrough College, Redcar
21 Centres of Excellence average, while the north east as a prominently in the minds of Fe & Cleveland College and stockton
whole has over 3 times the number of colleges across the sub-region. Riverside College) offer a range of
24 Local Support new apprentices per worker compared flexible engineering courses as well
engineering Design is offered at
26 Cost-effective Solutions to london. as Foundation Degrees in the likes
all the major colleges and training
27 Choice of Premises of Renewable energy engineering,
the tees Valley, through our network providers in tees Valley (for example,
electrical and electronic engineering,
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle of industry-recognised providers, Hartlepool College is a specialist Centre
Mechanical and Manufacturing
30 Help for Your Next Move offers the widest possible range of in technical and Design engineering),
engineering and Fabrication and
apprenticeships (at both level 2 and with many such courses offered as
Welding.
level 3) for the engineering industry, Foundation Degrees in partnership
as well as work-based learning and with teesside university.
bespoke training packages.

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CONTeNTS
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities CaSe STUDY
Wind Advantages
Middlesbrough College
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24 Local Support
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle Middlesbrough College, the largest provider of post-16 training in the tees
30 Help for Your Next Move Valley serving 11,000 students, offers courses and bespoke training for
employers in all aspects of engineering and management programmes.
they provide a two-year Foundation the College, who are in the top 25%
Degree in Renewable energy engineering nationally for qualification success,
in partnership with teesside university, have worked with a number of top
as well as engineering courses and engineering employers, including lucite
apprenticeships in all aspects from international, tata steel and AV Dawson
mechanical and electrical to welding and have recently collaborated with
and fabrication. tees Valley engineering Partnership on
offshore wind seminar events.

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CONTeNTS Higher education
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities tees Valley is within an hours drive of CaSe STUDY
Wind Advantages
6 top class universities, with over 9,000
students taking engineering each year. Over 7,000 TFI (Technology Futures Institute,
04 Overview of Tees Valley north east universities have a reputation students study Teesside University)
06 Major North Sea Port for engineering excellence, with a higher
proportion of students in the region
engineering in tFi (technology Futures institute, teesside university) members develop new
studying engineering and technology the Tees Valley knowledge and technologies to support local, national and international
11 Who’s Here
than the national average. the subject
has experienced the greatest increase in
Each year business activities. one of the main areas of expertise is energy.

15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing student numbers of any subject in the tFi is an international leader in a number in virtual reality application to project
north east over the past 3 years, growth of areas of research and innovation (R&i) management, 5D modeling (3D+time+cost),
much higher than the national average. such as virtual planning and control iCt for energy efficient buildings and
24 Local Support (5D planning), the application of BiM infrastructures, and BiM (Building
26 Cost-effective Solutions technology in processes and heavy civil information Modeling) adoption.
27 Choice of Premises engineering projects, advanced materials
teesside Manufacturing Centre (tMC)
Teesside University enrolments 2010/11 at all levels processing and nano-technology. tFi
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle offers a total enterprise integration service
incorporates a number of active business
30 Help for Your Next Move in design, manufacturing and business
Mechanical engineering 398 orientated research centres, including:
process improvements for businesses
tMC (teesside Manufacturing Centre) involved in the manufacturing, mechanics,
electrical and electronic engineering 336 offers a total organisational development materials, process technology and
service through enterprise integration, chemical engineering sectors. they have
instrumentation and Control engineering 163 improvement service in design, business worked with the likes of Wellstream,
and manufacturing processes with a remit siemens energy, Babcock engineering,
other 886 of bringing people, processes and systems Gl noble Denton and iHC Merwede.
together.
Total 1783
CCiR (Centre for Construction innovation
& Research) is internally leading in R&i

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Tees Valley Supply Chain
CONTeNTS According to research commissioned by Tees Valley Unlimited, there is a potential
offshore wind supply-chain of more than 300 companies in the Tees Valley
Wind Advantages employing in excess of 19,000 people. The offshore wind
supply-chain
this supply-chain includes over 160 tees Valley’s proven expertise in metal process industries – makes the tees
07 Workforce of Engineers tees Valley firms that are already directly production, cabling, subsea, construction Valley much less risky for major oeMs in Tees Valley has
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain involved and active in the offshore wind and logistics – stemming from its strong than other locations. the potential to
sector or actively interested in doing history of manufacturing, offshore and
11 Who’s Here so, with hundreds more demonstrating include 300 firms
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing the transferable skills that could provide
21 Centres of Excellence important services to the industry.
24 Local Support local expertise and a host of relevant
26 Cost-effective Solutions skills can be found in all of the elements
that make up the offshore wind supply
chain in tees Valley, in particular:
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technical services and planning
30 Help for Your Next Move consultancy
Bases and sub-sea structures
turbine design and manufacture
installation and commissioning
operations and maintenance
in each of these sub-sectors, tees Valley
has the core skills required by companies
in the offshore wind industry, providing
many opportunities for companies to
establish a successful operation here.

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Who’s Here?
CONTeNTS aBB engineering aMeC aveco (Teesside) Ltd. Cleveland Bridge UK Limited
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities www.abb.co.uk www.amec.com www.aveco.co.uk www.clevelandbridge.com
Billingham, ts23 4eB Darlington, Dl1 4Jn Middlesbrough, ts3 8At Darlington, Dl1 4De
Wind Advantages ABB engineering supply electrical and AMeC is a supplier of high-value Marine engineering company Aveco Cleveland Bridge are structural engineers
04 Overview of Tees Valley automation products and services to consultancy, engineering and project (teesside) ltd. offer fabrication and repair providing engineering, construction and
06 Major North Sea Port wind turbine manufacturers and operators, management services to the oil and facilities, the company has a 98,000sq.ft. steel fabrication services. the companies
with a portfolio ranging from HVDC gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, workshop and slipway able to withdraw site in Darlington is 22 acres with
07 Workforce of Engineers generators to compact substations to water and environmental sectors. AMeC and to launch vessels up to 1000 tonnes 27000m2 of covered fabrication area and
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain grid connections. within the tees Valley service the power into the River tees. a fabrication capacity of 1000 tonne per
11 Who’s Here and process markets, while the national week.
able UK Ltd group offer services across the whole aV Dawson Ltd
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing engineering spectrum including offshore
www.ableuk.com www.av-dawson.com CTC Marine
21 Centres of Excellence Billingham, ts23 1PX wind projects. Middlesbrough, ts2 1ut www.ctc.tricomarine.com
24 Local Support Darlington, Dl3 7ee
Decommissioning experts, Able uK, are AV Dawson own the multimodal
26 Cost-effective Solutions a&P Tees a&P group Ltd
currently constructing a new 306m deep distribution hub on the River tees with CtC Marine specialise in subsea trenching,
www.ap-group.co.uk
27 Choice of Premises water heavy load out quay and have river frontage, rail freight, port operations, cable lay and installation and have
Middlesbrough, ts6 6uZ
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle the world’s largest dry dock facility. the road transport and warehousing facilities. worked on a number of projects including
company undertake offshore maintenance A&P tees provides shiprepair, ship they are investing £6m in cranage and Germany’s BARD offshore 1 and Alfa
30 Help for Your Next Move work from Able seaton Port. conversion and marine services. their deepening the water berths to service Ventus and the uK’s Greater Gabbard and
facility on the tees consists of 2 dry docks, offshore wind activity. Robin Rigg projects.
abnormal Load engineering (aLe) jetty frontage, fabrication, fitting, pipe
www.ale-heavylift.com production and joinery shops. Vessels are Balfour Beatty Management
Middlesbrough, ts3 8Bs able to come alongside for tank cleaning www.balfourbeattymanagement.co.uk
and afloat repairs. Wynyard, ts22 5ss
With a base in tees Valley, Ale provide
heavy lifting, transportation, installation, Balfour Beatty is the leading uK supplier
ballasting, jacking and weighing services of power transmission and distribution
to a wide range of industries. Ale plays a networks to the international power
vital role in the renewable energy sector supply industry. the company has an
and recent wind farm projects include office in Middlesbrough
sherringham shoal, Walney and Greater
Gabbard.

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CONTeNTS eDF energy Renewables Francis Brown Ltd JDR Cable Systems (Holdings) Ltd Mammoet (UK) Ltd
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities www.edfenergy.com www.francisbrown.co.uk www.jdrcables.com www.mammoet.com
Redcar ts10 4RF stockton on tees, ts18 2Hl Hartlepool, Cleveland, ts24 0RQ Middlesbrough, ts23 1lG
Wind Advantages eDF energy Renewables have 260 MW of engineering company Francis Brown offer JDR is a leading provider of custom- From its Billingham headquarters,
04 Overview of Tees Valley onshore wind farms in service and 250 design, fabrication, welding, installation, designed and manufactured subsea power Mammoet offer comprehensive
06 Major North Sea Port MW of onshore and offshore projects in machinery and assembly services. cables, umbilical systems and marine engineering, heavy lifting and
construction or in advance development the companies stockton site includes cables for a broad range of applications. transportation solutions to a number of
07 Workforce of Engineers across the country. the construction of a 3000m2 workshop and 15000m2 offshore wind projects include the supply industries including the wind sector in
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain the 62 MW teesside offshore Windfarm, warehouse space. of subsea power array cables for the first which they specialise in the installation
11 Who’s Here started in october 2010. it will produce phase of london Array offshore Wind of onshore and offshore wind turbines
electricity equivalent to the typical annual Heerema Hartlepool Ltd Farm. JDR are currently investing £11m to and operation and management of wind
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing domestic demand of approximately expand their Hartlepool facility. turbine component handling terminals.
www.heerema.com/
21 Centres of Excellence 40,000 homes, or most of the households Hartlepool, ts24 0RQ
24 Local Support in Redcar and Cleveland. the teesside Katmex Ltd Mech-Tool engineering Ltd
offshore Wind Farm will contribute towards Heerema Hartlepool have experience
26 Cost-effective Solutions www.katmexltd.co.uk www.mechtool.co.uk
uK emissions targets by offsetting the in building substation platforms for the
stockton-on-tees, ts20 2BH Darlington, Dl3 0Qt
27 Choice of Premises annual release of approximately 200,000 offshore wind industry including two
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle tonnes of carbon dioxide. substation platforms for the sheringham Katmex are precision fabrication, cutting, Mte supply pre-assembled modular
shoal wind farm which are currently in shot blasting and machining specialists. buildings, fire, blast and louvered
30 Help for Your Next Move construction. they cut steel profile up to 50mm plate. windwalls for offshore wind farms.
Falck Nutec UK
Completed projects include Greater
www.falck.com
Hertel LV Shipping Ltd Gabbard, lincs, thanet, sheringham shoal
Billingham, ts23 1PZ
www.hertel.com/uk www.lvshipping.com and Galloper..
With a base in tees Valley, Falck nutec is Middlesbrough, ts3 6Rt Middlesbrough, ts6 6uZ
a leading, global provider of health and
safety training, with 26 training centres the marine operations arm of global Based in Middlesbrough, lV shipping
worldwide. Within its extensive portfolio engineering group Hertel fabricate are a logistics and distribution specialist.
of training courses the company provides substations and living accommodation for Facilities in Middlesbrough include a super
basic and advanced offshore wind farm a number of sectors including the offshore height warehouse, cranage and forklift
training, offshore survival training, working industry. capacity.
at heights, first aid, boat transfer and lifting
operations courses.

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CONTeNTS MB Tech Fabrications PD&MS energy Teesside Sarens UK LTD Sub aqua Diving Services
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities www.mb-tech.co.uk http://www.wilton-group.co.uk/ www.sarens.com www.commercialdivingservices.co.uk
stockton on tees, ts18 3AW ourservices/pdmsteesside.php Middlesbrough, ts2 1 ut Middlesbrough, Cleveland ts3 6ll
Middlesbrough, ts2 1RZ sarens are a global provider of specialist Middlesbrough-based diving company
Wind Advantages Fabrication specialists MB tech supply
welded gratings, stair threads and PD&Ms energy teesside is a multi- heavy lifting services for the energy, sub Aqua Diving services are capable of
handrails to a wide range of projects and disciplined engineering company based at power, process and petrochemical working at depths of up to 50 meters. the
06 Major North Sea Port the Port Clarence offshore Base. PD&Ms industries. they have serviced offshore company has already carried out work on
have the skills and capability to supply the
07 Workforce of Engineers offshore wind industry. energy provide an engineering concept wind farms across europe and have a several major offshore windfarms around
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain design service across a wide range of base in Middlesbrough. the uK, after investing heavily in some of
disciplines within several market sectors the best commercial dive equipment in the
11 Who’s Here MPI Offshore
including oil and gas, marine, offshore StS Resources & Technology Ltd country.
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing www.mpi-offshore.com
renewable and petrochem. www.stsadvanced.com
stokesley, ts9 5Pt
21 Centres of Excellence Middlesbrough, ts2 1Rt
MPi offshore is a world leader in offshore PD Ports
24 Local Support sts Resources & technology ltd provide
wind turbine installation, operating the www.pdports.co.uk
26 Cost-effective Solutions comprehensive offshore and onshore
world’s largest and most powerful wind Middlesbrough, ts2 1AH services to the petrochemical and
27 Choice of Premises turbine installation vessel, MPi Resolution.
PD Ports operates the Ports of tees and renewable industries. From planning to
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle the company are currently building two
Hartlepool, a major deep sea complex completion sts offer expert knowledge
more offshore wind turbine installation
30 Help for Your Next Move which is the uK’s fourth largest port by and special expertise in insulation,
vessels, the MPi Adventure and the MPi
tonnage. it covers 490 acres of land along scaffolding and surface treatment as well
Discovery, and have already secured
the tees, handles over 6,000 ships a year as associated disciplines such as nDt /
contracts with the london Array wind
and hosts two container quays and ‘roro’ paint inspection, rope access, rigging and
project.
facilities. training. sts Resources & technology ltd
also offer their patented positive pressure
Habitat. the Positive Pressure Habitat is a
Qa Weld Tech Ltd
safe cost effective means of preforming
www.qaweldtech.co.uk
hot works in Zone 1 hazardous areas.
Middlesbrough, ts2 1lu
specialist welders and fabricators QA
Welttech currently supplying offshore oil
and gas projects across the world with
subsea connection systems, flanges and
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CONTeNTS Svitzer Marine Ltd Tag energy Solutions Ltd Tata Steel Special Profiles URS Scott Wilson
02 Offshore Wind Opportunities www.svitzer.com www.tagenergysolutions.com www.tatasteeleurope.com/en/company/ www.urs-scottwilson.com
Middlesbrough, ts3 6AB Billingham, ts23 1PZ activities/long_products_europe/special_ Middlesbrough, ts1 2PX
the sVitZeR group operate a number With large facilities on the River tees tAG profiles/ uRs scott Wilson is part of uRs
Wind Advantages
of specialist services within harbour, is a project management, engineering and Redcar, ts10 5QW Corporation. With its headquarters in san
terminal, and ocean towage, line construction company with the experience tata steel special Profiles manufacture Francisco, uRs is a leading provider of
06 Major North Sea Port handling, waste management, salvage and capability to design, project manage long steel profiles and sections, including engineering, construction and technical
07 Workforce of Engineers and emergency response as well as fast and construct large onshore and offshore flanges for the offshore wind market. services for public agencies and private
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain transportation of crew and supplies to structures for the Renewable energy sector sector companies around the world. scott
offshore installations, they have a number including steel monopoles, tripod / jacket Tekmar group Wilson is a global integrated design and
11 Who’s Here of in-house specialists able to offer foundations and gravity base foundations. engineering consultancy for the built and
http://www.tekmar.co.uk/
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing technical support and advice. the teesside the company is currently investing £20m Darlington, Dl3 0uR natural environments. the company
21 Centres of Excellence operation specialises in towage services, to create a facility for offshore wind tubular provides highly developed engineering
newton Aycliffe-based company with a
waste management, technical support foundation manufacturing. skills to the offshore Wind industry being
24 Local Support manufacturing facility in Darlington, tekmar
and is actively involved in providing and at the forefront of wind energy projects
26 Cost-effective Solutions produce cable protection devices for
developing solutions to support off-shore Tata europe since 1991 when it worked on some of the
offshore wind turbines. they are currently
27 Choice of Premises windfarms around the uK. www.tatasteeleurope.com first developments in the uK. over 350
supplying the Walney 1 wind farm in the
Redcar, ts10 5QW projects have been completed in the
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle irish sea.
uK, europe, Asia, north Africa, China and
30 Help for Your Next Move Global steelmaker tata europe is investing
the usA.
£31.5m in a monopile manufacturing plant
in tees Valley. they will build the steel
foundation structures for turbines at the
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Offshore Wind Manufacturing
CONTeNTS Given the engineering heritage and world-class manufacturing skills in Tees Valley, it
should come as no surprise that the area is playing a key role in the manufacture of
Wind Advantages offshore wind turbines and the associated foundations and cables that are required.
06 Major North Sea Port tees Valley firms are currently active Walney 1 Wind Farm (irish sea):
07 Workforce of Engineers in many of the major offshore wind tekmar (Darlington) producing cable CaSe STUDY
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain developments around europe, for protection devices
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example:
Greater Gabbard Wind Farm: Abnormal
Tata Steel
sheringham shoal Wind Farm: load engineering (Middlesbrough)
Heerema (Hartlepool) building providing heavy lifting and jacking
21 Centres of Excellence substation platforms services
tata steel is building a multi-million Chris elliot, Corus Director of Product
pound factory that will make steel Marketing said:
24 Local Support
lincolnshire offshore Wind Farm: the proven ability of tees Valley foundation structures for wind
26 Cost-effective Solutions “in the uK alone, we estimate that
Mechtool engineering (Darlington) firms to deliver major engineering
turbines. about 6 million tonnes of steel will be
27 Choice of Premises supplying buildings, fire and blast and construction projects is attracting
needed over the next 10 years to make
walls significant investment in new facilities Corus, a subsidiary of tata steel, one
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle the foundations and tower structures
for the offshore wind industry. of the world’s top steel producers,
30 Help for Your Next Move london Array Wind Farm: JDR Cables for offshore wind turbines. We are
(Hartlepool) providing over 200km announced plans for a new £31.5 million positioning ourselves to take full benefit
of inter-array cables manufacturing plant in tees Valley which of these opportunities.”
would potentially create 220 new jobs.
Robin Rigg Wind Farm: sub Aqua the facility will produce monopoles, the
Diving services (Middlesbrough) steel foundation structures used to secure
supplying cable work operations offshore wind turbines to the seabed.
Germany’s BARD offshore 1 Wind Farm:
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CTC Marine Projects
04 Overview of Tees Valley Offshore Wind
07 Workforce of Engineers CtC Marine, the subsea engineering specialists with facilities in CtC Managing Director, Daryl lynch
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain Middlesbrough and Darlington, has recently been awarded their first contract says of the contract success, “Without
the talented team that makes up our
11 Who’s Here in the offshore wind farm industry by e.on Climate and Renewables uK.
organisation, it would be impossible to
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing deliver strong performance, which gives
the contract is for the lay, installation and
21 Centres of Excellence us the edge over our competition. At CtC,
burial of seventeen subsea power cable
it is the subsea experience, skills and
24 Local Support arrays linking wind turbine foundations at
professionalism of our people that made
26 Cost-effective Solutions the Robin Rigg offshore Wind Farm in the
us the obvious contractor choice for this
solway Firth.
27 Choice of Premises offshore wind farm project. this contract
CtC were awarded the project on the shows CtC’s ability to apply our extensive
basis that they have the extensive subsea experience in the oil and gas
30 Help for Your Next Move capabilities required to carry out the work industry to the offshore wind farm market
effectively and most efficiently, as well as and highlights the breadth of services
a wealth of engineering experience. on and technology that CtC can offer. this
top of this, e.on were impressed with the contract award shows the strength of our
high standard of equipment and level of subsea services and subsea protection
quality and safety which CtC possesses, business.”
and having already established a
successful track record working for e.on,
this put CtC in a strong position.

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JDR Cables
06 Major North Sea Port From its Hartlepool base, located
07 Workforce of Engineers on the uK’s east coast, JDR supply
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain cables weighing up to 2200 tonnes
11 Who’s Here which can be spooled directly from
the factory to offshore cable laying
vessels. this new state-of-the-art
quayside facility expands JDR’s
24 Local Support
offering to the offshore market.
27 Choice of Premises JDR already supplies the cables that
connect offshore wind turbines to
sub-stations, but in 2011, the company
30 Help for Your Next Move began a testing project for high-voltage
AC (HVAC) cables for the offshore wind
industry, the only uK manufacturer to do
so. JDR Cables is investing £11m to double
the size of its Hartlepool Dock factory,
creating a further 80 jobs in the move to
develop its HVACs.

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03 Tees Valley Offshore Tag energy Solutions
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06 Major North Sea Port tAG energy solutions is building a £20 million offshore wind manufacturing
07 Workforce of Engineers facility at Haverton Hill, Billingham. the new facility, which could employ
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain 400 people on the site of a former shipyard, will house specialist automated
11 Who’s Here equipment for the manufacturer of large diameter cans for offshore turbine
foundations.
21 Centres of Excellence located at its 42 acre site on the north As the building takes shape it sends a
24 Local Support Bank of the River tees, the production message to the sector that we aim to
facility will roll and weld large diameter play a serious role in the marketplace
26 Cost-effective Solutions tubulars used in the construction of and we have real confidence that the uK,
27 Choice of Premises offshore windmill jacket and monopile and of course the north east, will have
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle foundations. the facility is the first of its a major influence on the offshore wind
kind in the uK. industry.”
Alex Dawson, chief executive of tAG
energy solutions, said:
“embarking on the construction of the
facility is an important milestone in the
creation of a robust and effective supply
chain for the offshore wind market.

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03 Tees Valley Offshore Heerema
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06 Major North Sea Port Heerema Hartlepool, one of the fabrication locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has been involved in several
07 Workforce of Engineers major offshore wind projects around the uK including the sheringham shoal Wind Farm off the norfolk coast.
speaking in 2010 after being awarded
11 Who’s Here the contract to fabricate and load out
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing two substation platform topsides for
sheringham shoal, Frank Moran, managing
director of Heerema Hartlepool said:
24 Local Support
“the award of sheringham shoal is
another important step for Heerema
27 Choice of Premises Hartlepool and HFG in the expanding
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle offshore wind energy sector. it builds on
our earlier success in this area, drawing
on our extensive offshore oil and gas
experience for this new market. We are
proud to be in a position to play our
part in implementing the Government’s
green energy strategy over the coming
years and, especially in these challenging
economic times, to continue providing
substantial employment in Hartlepool
and the north east.”

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03 Tees Valley Offshore aV Dawson
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06 Major North Sea Port Middlesbrough-based multimodal haulier AV Dawson is investing more than £6m in a new crane, warehousing,
07 Workforce of Engineers equipment and quayside dredging to grow its share in the renewables sector and boost its infrastructure to support
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain the offshore wind supply-chain.
11 Who’s Here AV Dawson’s logistics, shipping and cargo
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing handling operations are based at Dawsons
21 Centres of Excellence Wharf and north sea supply Base sites
on the River tees, where the firm has four
24 Local Support
berths.
Rob turnbull, AV Dawson business
27 Choice of Premises development leader, says the transport
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle of wind turbine parts is something the
30 Help for Your Next Move company is looking to develop in the
future. “We hope to be able to capitalise
on the government’s commitment to wind
energy through building more offshore
wind farms.”

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Centres of excellence
CONTeNTS Tees Valley is an emerging hub of expertise for research and development into
renewable energy with the area’s education providers and industry research
Wind Advantages establishments working together to support the development of new skills and
technologies for the sector.
11 Who’s Here CaSe STUDY
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing The Welding Institute
24 Local Support
26 Cost-effective Solutions tWi’s mission is to deliver world class services in joining materials,
27 Choice of Premises engineering and allied technologies to meet the needs of a global
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle membership and its associated community.
30 Help for Your Next Move tWi technology Centre (north east) is an tWi focuses its new technologies for
extension of the resources at company the energy sector, from its low Carbon
headquarters in Cambridge. tWi, with its energy - Manufacturing technology
55 years of experience and innovation in Centre in Middlesbrough. this site
manufacture, asset integrity management provides a base for supporting regional
and materials, is working with oeMs, and international manufacturing
utility companies, research organisations, industries and helps to improve
service companies and nuclear competitiveness in existing and emerging
decommissioning agencies. low carbon energy markets.

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NaReC
Based at Blyth in northumberland, naReC is an independent centre for the
07 Workforce of Engineers development, testing and commercialisation of next generation reliable
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain technologies for the wind energy industry.
11 Who’s Here
naReC operates the only full-scale and understanding reliability and being able
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing independent blade testing facility in the to forecast performance before plant
21 Centres of Excellence uK, with a proven capability since 2005. A is built is the only way to minimise
24 Local Support second 100m+ blade test facility is under uncertainty in the market. naReC informs
construction (to be operational in 2011). this process, based on solid performance
this will offer the latest techniques in data and our experience of working with
27 Choice of Premises accelerated fatigue testing for the longer whole power systems.
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle blades to be used on offshore machines.
30 Help for Your Next Move Proposals to support the deployment of
larger farms further offshore include a
15MW drive train test facility for turbines
and full-scale offshore demonstration
capability. these unique assets are aimed
at de-risking the development of the
offshore wind industry in the uK, in order
to build confidence in the capital markets
and progress proposals for new offshore
power plant.

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Hartlepool College
Hartlepool College of Further education is recognised for its consistently high performing work with employers
through the training Quality standard (including excellence in engineering, Construction and Building services), rated
10 Tees Valley Supply Chain by ofsted as outstanding and accredited as an approved provider with three national skills Academies: nuclear,
11 Who’s Here Process industries and Manufacturing. the College is also a very collaborative in ethos, hosting the hub for the
15 Offshore Wind Manufacturing national skills Academy for environmental technologies on behalf of several north east providers including nAReC.
the College is presently involved in a wind technologies thereby attaining opened in september 2011. support for
24 Local Support £60m new build that is being completed future proof skills. We aim to include the project includes employers such as
26 Cost-effective Solutions concurrent with innovative curriculum themes such as turbine technology, Heerema, tAG energy solutions, PD Ports
27 Choice of Premises developments in low carbon technologies environmental engineering, component and scottish and southern energy.
and wind energy. manufacture and fabrication, blade
28 Tees Valley Lifestyle “it’s in the interests of the region that
analysis, and control systems which are
on such example is a highly ambitious we get this right and to date we have
30 Help for Your Next Move highly complementary to our existing
project supported by one north east that benefited from some superb support
provision in engineering”.
will align the new campus build, with a from local employers. the tees Valley
new curriculum framework in the aim of the College has already began aligning has many strengths when it comes to
achieving genuine world-class skills. its engineering provision and a significant investment around offshore wind, we
milestone in the project will be the capital already have a strong skills base and
steve Wallis, Assistant Principal explained:
investment in fitting-out a bespoke, training infrastructure, hopefully the
“the aim [of the project] is to ensure state of the-art-workshop incorporating College developments will offer a further
that employers, employees, learners an industrial wind turbine and a wind opportunity to promote our region.”
and apprentices are able to access tunnel as part of the new campus build.
the highest quality training in offshore the 300m2 workshop will be officially

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