The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has announced it has released its latest Innovation Grants competition, which will see a total of £1 million awarded to successful supply chain companies to develop new products and services for the offshore wind sector.

In light of Norway’s prominence as this year’s partner country at Hannover Messe, tune in to Smart Machines & Factories’ Aaron Blutstein’s latest Talking Industry podcast featuring Tore Hattrem, Norway’s Ambassador to the UK, and Hilde Hukkelberg, Director UK and Ireland at Innovation Norway.

Expertise with metallic sealing and retaining ring solutions – a cornerstone of the RenewableUK member company’s activity – will be on display on the Cross Manufacturing stand at the Global Offshore Wind 2024 exhibition and conference, taking place on 18-19 June in Manchester.

Birmingham-based Armac Martin, a pioneer in design-led luxury brass hardware and accessories, relies heavily on compressed air for its CNC machining requirements. However, the company’s existing system was constantly operating at full capacity, leading to unnecessary energy expenditure. By collaborating with FPS Compressors and its preferred local distributor Compressed Air Systems UK - Birmingham, Armac Martin adopted a new system capable of variable compressed air supply. The project led to an impressive 46% reduction in energy consumption compared with the company’s previous compressor.

TMC Compressors (TMC) has announced it has been awarded a contract to supply a large capacity marine compressed air system to MODEC’s FPSO Errea Wittu.

Optime Subsea has announced it has been contracted by Equinor to deliver two Remotely Operated Control Systems (ROCS) for use at the operator’s Irpa field development.

Aberdeen-based engineering and manufacturing company Wellvene has announced a new partnership with one of Norway’s leading integrated completions providers, Marwell AS.