On July 1, 2023, Steelwind Nordenham GmbH expanded its management. Jost Backhaus is next to Dr. Andreas Liessem another managing director. He is responsible for the commercial area of the company and mainly takes over the sales and project management department. Jost Backhaus has many years of professional experience in the field of renewable energies. The industrial engineer previously worked, among other things, as COO at Enercon.
"With Jost Backhaus, I welcome an experienced and committed colleague to the management board. Together we face the challenges in a dynamically growing market for monopiles." Andreas Liessem
“For me, the decisive factor in working for Steelwind was that the company is a key supplier in achieving the offshore development goals. A particular motivation for me was being able to contribute to sustainability in the value chain with the recyclable product steel,” explains Jost Backhaus.
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 a separate monopile and transition piece with one Integration of certain parts of the transition pieces in the monopile. The length of a monopile can then be up to 120 meters. The steel for the foundations comes from Saarland from Dillinger, heavy plate manufacturer in Europe. SWN currently employs 275 people.
