Spread over an area of 24,000 square meters, the state-of-the-art production facility worth EUR 150 million has a production capacity of 1,200 kilometers of sea cable per year. The factory produces a unique, robust and durable cable design without the use of traditional materials lead and bitumen, ensuring more sustainability, efficiency and less risk.
Sep 24, 2024
TKH Group, an internationally active group of companies, specializing in creating and delivering innovative telecom, building and industrial solutions, recently opened a new factory at Beatrixhaven in Eemshaven, Netherlands, for offshore wind farm cables production.
With an investment of EUR 150 million, this state-of-the-art production facility is an important milestone for TKH, symbolizing not just the company’s growth ambition and innovation drive, but also its commitment to contributing to the future of sustainable energy, said a release issued by TKH.
It said the factory would focus specifically on the production of inter-array offshore cables that interconnect the wind turbines of offshore wind farms.
With construction starting in September 2022 and the start of production in March this year, the official opening was a moment to celebrate the dedication and hard work of all employees and partners involved.
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TKH built this high-tech factory on the site at Beatrixhaven in Eemshaven in a short time to meet the rapidly increasing demand for transport capacity in the offshore wind industry and to guarantee the urgent need for network reliability.
Spread over an area of 24,000 square meters, the factory has a production capacity of 1,200 kilometers of sea cable per year and is built on a site of 7 hectares. The facility is equipped with the latest technologies and innovations. It produces a unique, robust and durable cable design, without the use of traditional materials lead and bitumen, that enables TKF customers to install more sustainably, more efficiently and with less risk.
In addition, the factory has an impressive location on the heavy loading quay. By choosing this location, the factory is as close as possible to the open sea. This offers many advantages for the production and distribution of the inter-array offshore cables. The freed-up capacity in Lochem will be used to increase the production capacity of high and medium voltage cables.
Mr. Alexander van der Lof, CEO TKH Group, said: “TKH is not an average cable supplier and is therefore a unique player in the market, with a high degree of innovation. Various innovative techniques have been applied in this new factory and I am proud to say that we have the most innovative factory for inter-array cables globally located here in the Netherlands.
“We are always looking for differentiation through technical innovations. The changing demand from our customers for integrated systems requires us to integrate knowledge, adaptability and innovative technology. With the arrival of Artificial Intelligence, we see new opportunities to strengthen our solutions both within the connectivity activities and within the other divisions within TKH and to respond to new possibilities that this offers for our customers, as presented today with demos in the Eemshaven.”
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Mr. Laurens Pots, Director R&D at TKF, said: “We have a unique cable design in the market, a so-called dry design, which provides enormous efficiency gains and cost savings for our customers. This factory was built using this unique design as a basis. In addition, the cable design specifically takes into account the use of sustainable materials to limit the impact on the vulnerable underwater environment as much as possible.”
The factory was officially opened in the presence of employees, customers, construction partners, suppliers and Mr. Henk Jan Bolding, Mayor of Het Hogeland. In total, more than 250 guests attended the official opening ceremony.
With the opening of this new factory in Eemshaven and a dedicated factory for medium and high-voltage cables in Lochem, TKH is ready for significant capacity expansions in the energy cable infrastructure in the coming years.
