As offshore wind turbines become larger and more powerful, attention often turns to the foundations hidden below the waterline. Yet above the surface, another steel structure plays an equally visible and essential role: the tower. It carries the nacelle, supports the rotor, absorbs dynamic loads and connects the turbine system to the foundation below. For NLMK DanSteel, offshore towers are not a side story in the energy transition. They are part of a long industrial journey that has linked the Danish heavy plate producer to wind energy for decades.
‘We were here even before the wind started blowing,’ says Pavel Kolieda, Wind Segment Senior Commercial Manager at NLMK DanSteel. The phrase is delivered with a smile, but it says a lot about DanSteel’s place in wind energy: the company has followed the industry’s development for decades, from earlier turbine generations to today’s larger offshore structures.
From early onshore projects to today’s offshore wind structures, NLMK DanSteel has supplied plates for a sector where scale, reliability and delivery precision matter. Wind is written into DanSteel’s industrial genes: the Danish mill has grown alongside the sector over several decades, building experience in maritime applications, heavy structures, and wind energy, while continuously shaping its capabilities to meet the needs of large-scale renewable infrastructure.
This long-standing involvement has also included prototype developments for larger turbine concepts, giving DanSteel early insight into the industrial requirements that later became standard in offshore wind production.