Dajin Offshore Heavy Industry, which just announced that it signed a contract for the supply of monopiles for the UK’s Moray West project, plans to open a manufacturing facility in Europe that would produce both fixed and floating foundations for offshore wind projects.

For Ocean Winds’ Moray West offshore wind farm, the Chinese company first signed a capacity reservation agreement in December last year, with the firm agreement for 48 monopiles now in place and the first steel already cut.