General – Partnership
Switzerland-headquartered Holcim has taken a minority equity ownership in BW Ideol to scale up the construction of clean energy infrastructure.
The two companies will form a strategic partnership for the supply of innovative materials to two fabrication lines for floating foundations, developed by BW Ideol in Southern France and Northeast Scotland.
BW Ideol has 15 years’ experience of the design, engineering, and fabrication of offshore floating wind foundations, and has equity ownership in two floating wind projects: one off Scotland’s Northeast coast with a capacity of 960 MW, and one off France’s southern coast with a capacity of 270 MW.
The investment to scale clean energy infrastructure is aligned with Holcim’s NextGen Growth 2030 strategy, in which sustainability is a driver of profitable growth. Holcim has previously supplied onshore wind foundations across Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Poland, Spain and the UK, as well as offshore wind foundations off France’s northern coastline.
