Scale – SeAh Wind’ s factory on the banks of the River Tees is the biggest of its kind in the world.
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Monopile factory starts bold new era for Teesworks site
WORDS: DAVE ROBSON
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Future vision- Artist’ s impression of the Etc.’ s planned
The new NETA building in Thornaby-on-Tees. wind of change is blowing on the And three years on from a July 2022 old Redcar steelworks site – and a ground-breaking ceremony, monopile green energy project is leading the production is now beginning at SeAH way into a new era.
Wind’ s extraordinary South Bank complex
Where once thousands of workers toiled – the single largest XXXL monopile to produce the steel that helped build a manufacturing facility in the world. nation, SeAH Wind is using vast amounts of A remarkable sight on Teesside’ s the same metal to produce huge monopiles industrial skyline, the statistics are for the wind farm industry. impressive. To build it, around 38,000 tons
Covering 4,500 acres on the banks of the of structural steel has been used and 300,000 River Tees, Teesworks is Europe’ s largest cubic metres of concrete – enough to fill brownfield site. It’ s where the steelworks more than 50 Olympic-sized swimming once stood but will increasingly be home to pools. diverse, sustainable and low-carbon activity. And at 810m long, 200m wide and 40m
Its first major occupier is the SeAH high, it’ s about the size internally of 14 Wind factory – the latest investment from football pitches. Korean corporation SeAH Steel Holdings Up to 1,000 people daily have been Corporation, a third-generation, familyowned company, which began in 1960 by five million hours spent building it to
involved in its construction, with nearly making steel pipes for bicycles. date. And when fully up and running, the
Fast forward to 2025 and it has a huge current 300 SeAH employees should rise global presence – all driven by its core to 750, with the vast majority from Tees values of being“ honest, passionate and Valley postcodes, along with hundreds of professional”. other associated jobs supported by SeAH’ s