The facility, being built with manufacturer Crist in the Baltic Sea port of Szczecin, is expected to deliver some 80 units a year once up and running in 2015.

"Bilfinger has already been involved in the installation of more than 500 offshore foundations in the North Sea and Baltic Sea", said executive board member Joachim Enenkel. "We are thus not only in a position to install steel foundations on the open seas, but can now also produce them ourselves in advance."

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