Steelwind Nordenham GmbH has expanded its management board as of July 1, 2023: Jost Backhaus has been appointed as a further managing director alongside Dr. Andreas Liessem. He is responsible for the commercial area of the company and will focus on sales and project management. Jost Backhaus (50) has many years of professional experience in the field of renewable energies. The industrial engineer was previously COO of Enercon, among other positions.
Dr. Andreas Liessem: “With Jost Backhaus, I welcome an experienced and committed colleague to the management team. Together we will face the challenges in a dynamically growing market for monopiles.”
Jost Backhaus: “The decisive factor for me to work for Steelwind was that the company is an essential key supplier for achieving the offshore expansion goals. A particular motivation for me was also to be able to contribute to sustainability in the value chain with steel as a recyclable product.”
About Steelwind Nordenham GmbH
Steelwind Nordenham GmbH, a company of the Dillinger Group, has been manufacturing monopiles, transition pieces and “single-piece” monopile foundations with unit weights of up to 2,400 tons in Nordenham since 2014. The single-piece monopile replaces the previous design with separate monopile and transition piece by integrating certain parts of the transition pieces into the monopile. The length of a monopile can then be up to 120 meters. The steel for the foundations comes from the Saarland region of Germany from Dillinger, heavy plate manufacturer in Europe. SWN currently employs 275 people.
