About IHC Offshore Wind

IHC Offshore Wind combines the strength of various members of the IHC Merwede group, providing the most appropriate solution for the challenges of the emerging wind energy market. Driven by market demand, the unit brings together knowledge and people to develop concepts and transform them into reality. Our goal? Realising added value for our clients through our vast available expertise by promoting and linking the specialist competencies within IHC Merwede. IHC Merwede is specialized in designing and building state-of-the-art offshore and dredging vessels as well as integrated specialized handling equipment.

Latest brochure IHC Handling Systems

The offshore wind business is clearly a growth market. Especially offshore, sizeable wind farms will be created during the coming decades. The most important development with regard to current and future wind turbines is that the capacity per turbine will increase.

IHC Handling Systems has been ahead of these developments for many years now. How? Innovation and thinking in terms of the market are deeply entrenched in our company’s DNA.

Latest press release FLOW - 28 May 2010

Today, the leaving Economic Affairs Minister Van der Hoeven granted funding of €19.5 million for the Far and Large Offshore Wind (FLOW) innovation project. The subsidy matches the same level of funding previously announced by the companies in the FLOW consortium.

Article IHC Offshore Wind in Navingo magazine Offshore Wind

IHC Merwede recently decided to link the business units’ capabilities relating to offshore wind in a specialised department: ‘IHC Offshore Wind’. IHC OW will coordinate the specialists and projects in the area and it is in the process of developing a total package of integrated solutions for the market challenges discussed here.

Article IHC Offshore Wind in Ports & Dredging 174

IHC Merwede's vision is that energy, safety, economic stability, stocks of raw materials and logistic possibilities are vital to the global future. They are the backdrop to IHC Merwede operations and justify the company's existence in the long term. Offshore wind is one of the focus areas of IHC Merwede.

Press release FLOW 2009

RWE Offshore Wind, Eneco, TenneT, Ballast Nedam, Van Oord, IHC Merwede, 2-B Energy, XEMC Darwind, ECN and TU Delft are pioneering a large scale innovation programme for the development of wind energy far out at sea. (Far and Large Offshore Wind: FLOW). The plan was presented on September 9th to Minister of Economic Affairs Van der Hoeven.