Wind power is one of the central pillars of the energy transition. Offshore wind turbines in particular, which are erected in coastal regions and on the open sea, offer the potential to generate energy on a large scale. The largest and most modern production site for offshore towers in Europe is currently being built on the island of Ostrów in the heart of the Polish harbour city of Gdańsk.
The company Baltic Towers is building a hall with gigantic dimensions here. In figures: 135 metres wide, 430 metres long and almost 36 metres high. The construction phase began in June 2024 and Baltic Towers will start producing the offshore towers with 400 production employees from the second quarter of 2025. The result will be tower segments with a diameter of 11 metres, a length of 50 metres and a weight of 500 tonnes each. The production capacity is estimated at 150 towers per year.
Services from nearby Goleniow
Cometto - the competence centre for self-propelled transporters within the Faymonville Group - was awarded the contract to supply 48 SPMT axle lines from the 48T series with four Power Pack Units. In future, these self-propelled modules will be used to transport the delivered steel plates and the tower sections and entire towers produced from them to the right place in production, to the storage area and on to the ship loading area.
‘In addition to the qualitative strengths of the Cometto SPMT, another decisive factor in the customer's decision was the fact that any service work required will be carried out by employees from our plant in Goleniow,’ says Joachim Kolb, Sales Manager at Cometto, describing the favourable conditions. ‘This ensures rapid availability and thus guarantees that transport availability is maintained at all times.’
Cometto SPMT with key function
‘The SPMTs to be delivered will be the backbone of our production,’ says Tomasz Bogdan from Baltic Towers, emphasising the importance of the new vehicles, ’and that is why, after careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the offers, we chose Cometto as our partner in this lighthouse project.’ Baltic Towers was established in 2023 as a result of cooperation between the Polish Industrial Development Agency S.A. and the Spanish company GRI Renewable Industries, S.L. This joint project is a significant factor in strengthening the Polish offshore wind energy supply chain.
Group photo
(f.l.t.r.): Alexander Fickers (CEO Faymonville Group), Ryszard Michna (Purchase Baltic Towers, Joachim Kolb (Sales Manager Cometto), Krzysztof Bartosik (Sales Manager Faymonville Poland), Bruno Orlando Lima Antunes (COO Baltic Towers) Lukasz Zuchowski (COO Faymonville Poland)
Date of publication: 09/2024