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W3G Marine
IGP Priority
Industrialised Foundations & Substructures
Support received
Funding support
Business support
Installation products for the Offshore Wind sector.
10+ years of experience in the Offshore Wind sector.
Annual turnover of £2M.
10+ employees.
Business profile
W3G Marine received an innovation grant to trial an automated, scalable production process to improve the commercial competitiveness of a key product within its portfolio of Offshore Wind installation tools.
Trialling use of robotic welding machines.
Product certified to industrial standards.
Potential for 10-fold growth.
W3G Marine is well established in the Offshore Wind sector with 10 years of experience providing engineering services and installation tools to the industry.
The companyʼs inflatable packer is an innovative foundation stabilisation tool that has successfully been trialled at East Anglia One Offshore Wind Farm with a follow on contract successfully secured. W3G Marine needed to invest significant CAPEX to develop a manufacturing process if it was to sell this solution at scale and lead the market.
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CAPEX assistance to undertake a production process trial.
Funding is developing a manufacturing process to increase product quality and help the company to scale.
Opportunity for 10-fold growth.
Before
W3G Marine saw huge potential in a product within its range of Offshore Wind installation tools but was confronted with a large CAPEX investment to develop an automated manufacturing process. As it stood, its Foundation Stabilisation Tool (FST) was proving popular with customers in the Offshore Wind sector, but the highly manual nature of the production process was stifling the companyʼs ability to produce the product at scale. W3G Marine needed to find investment if it was going to unlock huge growth for the company’s future.
What they say
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We couldn’t have jumped on this opportunity to grow the business without the grant funding from OWGP. This cash injection has allowed us to innovate and explore the use of robotic welding to reduce our cost base, improve our quality and take on board more of the scope directly.”
JOHN GILES
Technical Director, W3G Marine
