The
firm
filed
for
Chapter
11-style
protection
in
April
for
three
of
its
key
business
units
—
Smulders
Projects,
Iemants
and
Willems
Staalconstructies
—
while
it
attempts
to
sell
off
what
it
considers
to
be
non-strategic
parts
of
its
business.
The
Belgian-based
businesses
are
under
a
form
of
administration
known
as
WCO
in
Belgian
law.
The
move
caused
alarm
in
the
offshore
wind
business,
as
Smulders
is
a
key
supplier
of
monopiles,
jacket
foundations
and
transition
pieces.
But
Dennis
Thomsen,
Smulders’
commercial
director
for…
