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ROC’s First OWU Appeared at Offshore Wind China 2013


From June 19th to 21st, Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipments Co., Ltd. (“ROC” for short) attended “OFFSHORE WIND CHINA 2013” in Shanghai. The first offshore wind turbine installation platform (“Platform” for short) in China, designed and built independently by ROC, aroused great interest of visitors and customers both at home and abroad in her first appearance in the exhibition.

The parameters of Platform as below: length O.A:140.00m, length molded: 89.90.m, breadth: 39.00m, length of spud leg: 60.00m, and service depth: 35m. The platform is equipped with one 700T main crane and one 120T auxiliary crane. Jacking system and lift tooling system are designed and built independently by ROC. ROC has own intellectual property and patent. OWU owns characteristics of low construction cost, high reliability, large capacity, low maintenance cost, flexible work conditions, etc.  Meanwhile, Advanced jacking system and flexible operation system can supply integrated solution for transport, piling, installation, commissioning, maintenance, etc.  The Platform is accepted by the Danish Embassy counselor, Maersk broker, wind turbine installation companies, potential wind farm owners and other customers and professions in the industry. Her first appearance also attracted attention from Modern Wind Energy, China Wind Power Industry Website and other media who made site interview.
The Platform has successfully completed her first installation of wind turbine through jacking platform in China. She disassembled and assembled 3 MW wind turbine safely and effectively, which only took about 1/3 of traditional operation time. Meanwhile, ROC developed and designed series of offshore wind turbine installation platforms and dedicated to provide advanced and high effective solution for the local offshore wind turbine construction.