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Clipper Meet the Buyer event
Thu 12th Nov 2009, 3:26pm
A meet the buyer event with Clipper Windpower Marine will be held in Newcastle next month.
A world-leading developer and manufacturer of wind turbines, Clipper is looking for companies to supply into its new Britannia 10MW Turbine, the largest offshore wind turbine in the world.
Clipper are considering setting up a manufacturing plant to make composite 75 m long blades, and another facility to assemble gearboxes and nacelles in the North East of England over the next few years. The design of the turbine will be extensively tested in the NaREC facilities in Blyth.
The event will take place at Newcastle Falcons' Kingston Park Stadium on Thursday 3 December 2009. There will be a full morning schedule comprising information and opportunities in Offshore Wind, the Britannia Turbine and how to supply Clipper Windpower.
Places for this event are strictly limited so please register your interest in attending by Wednesday 18 November 2009. Confirmation of attendance will sent to you by 27 November 2009. To register, please contact Clare McDermott, Energy & Engineering Specialist Advisor, One North East: Tel: 0191 229 6500
Clipper Windpower is interested in talking to companies in the following sectors:
Electrical
1. Power Distribution Panel, Master Control Unit, Rectifier
- PCB assembly
- Wave solder capability
- Surface mount assembly
- Steel cabinets or third party source
- Large cabinet electrical assembly
2. Switchgear & Transformers
- Manufacturers of the above
- Manufacturers of 2.6 MVA transformers
3. Other
- Busbars including MV
- Cables including MV
- Copper wiring
- Cable trays
- Fire Suppression for electrical components
Mechanical
1. Gears
- Gear teething machine up to 3 metres
- Heat treat capabilities for up to 3 metres or 3rd party outsource
2. Bearings
- Capability to make up to a 5 metres bearing size
3. Castings
- Capability up to 50 tons and 5 metres cube dimension
Manufacturing
1. Factory facilities
- Dust extraction
- Industrial floor preparation
- Resin and prepreg storage
- Custom heating for moulds
2. Component handling
- Custom handing machines
- Custom transit frames for large items
- Container transport machinery
3. Composites
- Experience in composites with large mould manufacturing or boat building
- Resin mixing
- Material preparation and cutting
- Glass mat and prepreg handling
- Composite drilling
- Composite finishing tools
- Glass mat, carbon fiber, resin and prepreg supplies
- Alignment aids
- Composite component scanning and quality checks
Specialist Engineering Services
- Strain gauge installation and instrumentation wiring
- Rotating plant monitoring
- Composite sample testing
- Precision alignment of machinery
- Oil testing and interpretation
- Condition based monitoring including algorithm development
Towers
- Tower/Steel fabricators able to handle up to 7.5 m diameter sections
- Tower fitting out - cables, platforms, lifts and fall arrest
- Tower lifts and fall-arrest systems
- Bolting/Fixing
The morning itinerary is shown below:
08:30 Registration and coffee on arrival
08:50 Welcome and introduction
09:00 DECC – Round 3 and the size of the opportunity, Richard Brooks
09:30 ONE – Agency Support, Ray Thompson
09:55 NaREC – What they do, speaker to be confirmed
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 Clipper – Who they are, David Still
11:00 Clipper – The Britannia Turbine, Bill Grainger
11:30 Clipper – Supply chain expectations, Ian Cluderay
12:00 Lunch and networking opportunity