Wind industry service providers Windhoist, Stowen and Hexis have joined forces to set up a new company, Windlogix Group.
Windlogix will integrate complementary capabilities between the three companies and is focused on serving both onshore and offshore wind markets by offering a “cradle-to-grave” service portfolio.
Euan Lockhart, CEO, will lead a two-pronged strategy for Windlogix.
The first, organic growth, is to be achieved through the integration of adjacent services that will enable clients to benefit from “unified delivery and service solutions backed by the assurance and resilience of group infrastructure”.
The second, strategic acquisition, will serve to bolster capabilities across Windlogix in order to serve clients at every stage of the wind-farm lifecycle.
Windhoist is a provider of onshore turbine erection services, providing safe and efficient lifting operations, based on a track record of 19GW, both on- and offshore.
Windhoist provides the “backbone of Windlogix’s installation capability”.
Stowen carries out “world-class inspection, servicing and certification capabilities well regarded throughout the industry”.
Hexis is an established provider of accredited training courses for the offshore renewable industry and brings a “comprehensive curriculum” of practical and theory-based training to bring trainees up to the newly developed ECTIB standards; standards which it helped to develop.
Windlogix is actively engaged in the hiring of further talent, while further acquisitions are to be announced in the near future.
Lockhart said: “Launching Windlogix to the public is another important step along an ambitious and exciting path for our businesses, and a visible demonstration of our steadfast commitment to help accelerate the global transition to renewable energies.”
Windlogix employs 500 members of staff from over 40 locations and provides a platform from which it can “offer new, mature, services for customers old and new”, he added.
From 1 March 2022 Euan Fenelon will take on the position of Windhoist managing director, where he will combine this with his role as chief operating officer for Windlogix.
Since joining Windhoist in January 2021, Fenelon has been “instrumental in driving operational and process transformation whilst delivering HSEQ excellence”, the company stated.