Bekaert joins Tailwind Project to develop floating offshore wind mooring solutions. The Tailwind project, launched in January 2024, will deliver station-keeping technologies, designed to maintain the position of floating offshore wind energy farms through mooring lines and anchoring systems.
The Tailwind consortium is composed of NGI - Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (Norway), Technische Universiteit Delft (Netherlands), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark), Sintef Ocean AS (Norway), Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), Nautilus Floating Solutions (Spain), Bekaert (Belgium), Subsea 7 Norway (Norway), Fondazione ICONS (Italy), Clarke Modet Y Compania S.L. (Spain), NKT Cables Group (Denmark), University of Southampton (UK).