Jost Backhaus (50) has many years of professional experience in the field of renewable energies. Among other positions, the industrial engineer was previously COO of Enercon.

Dr. Andreas Liessem: “With Jost Backhaus, I welcome an experienced and dedicated colleague to the management team. Together we are meeting the challenges in a dynamically growing market for monopiles.”

Jost Backhaus: “The deciding factor for me to join Steelwind was that the company is an essential, key supplier in achieving offshore expansion goals. Being able to contribute to sustainability in the value chain with recyclable steel was also a special motivation for me.”

About Steelwind Nordenham GmbH

Steelwind Nordenham GmbH is a Dillinger Group company located in Nordenham, Germany. The company began manufacturing monopiles and transition pieces in 2014 and now also produces single-piece monopile foundations with unit weights of up to 2,400 tons. The single-piece monopile replaces the previous design with a separate monopile and transition piece by integrating certain parts of the transition piece into the monopile. The monopile can then be up to 120 meters long. The steel for the monopiles comes from Dillinger, a leading manufacturer of heavy plate steel located in Saarland. SWN currently employs 275 people.

More information can be found at www.steelwind-nordenham.de

About Dillinger

Aktien-Gesellschaft der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger), founded in 1685, is a world leader today in the manufacture of premium heavy plate steel. The Dillinger Group employs a total of around 6,200 people. High-tech plate from Dillinger is used to realize extraordinary and technically advanced projects all over the globe in the steel construction, engineering, offshore, offshore wind power, line pipe and boiler construction sectors, as well as many others.

More information can be found at www.dillinger.de.