DANISH QUALITY WIND MAGAZINE COMMERCIAL CONTENT From small components to 600-ton steel structures For more than 20 years, East Metal A / S has supplied high-quality components and steel structures to leading wind turbine manufacturers. Thoroughness is the hallmark of the company from West Jutland, which has a constant focus on creating value and security for their partners. BY ANDREAS EXCALIBUR BYGBJERG E ast Metal started as a supplier of steel components to the furniture industry in the mid-90s. Soon after, the company began to engage in the thriving serial production of wind turbines. Production has since expanded from smaller components to heavy, complex steel structures up to 600 tonnes. More than just a subcontractor East Metal has managed to adapt to the industry's developments and today has over 40,000 m2 of production space spread across four modern factories, which help ensure high competitiveness in terms of delivery time, price, and quality. - By considering the entire value chain, we reduce the direct cost of the products. Our flexible and specialized production facilities enable us to deliver directly to customers' needs, just in time, saving them storage, quality, and handling costs. In addition, we can supply them with secondary steel structures, technical installations, and other things that make the product much more interchangeable, says Erik Gammelgaard, Marketing and Business Development Manager at East Metal A / S. - We are moving more and more towards the role of a total supplier that delivers integrated solutions to the industry. That's one of the ways we meet customers' desire for lower unit costs on the turbines and individual components, he adds. Hand in hand with the process At East Metal, nothing is left to chance. Thoroughness is a keyword that characterizes all processes from the very beginning to the delivery of the finished product. - We attach great importance to achieving a balance between the customer's needs and the technical possibilities based on the drawings and requirements specifications we receive. We then prepare detailed production plans for the individual product parts, which specify an order, welding settings, and other details. You can say that we have adopted the IKEA assembly model as it creates a good process and a consistent result explains Erik Gammelgaard and continues: - When people have bad experiences with subcontractors, often it is because there has not been a proper alignment of expectations. We always try to foster confidence in potential customers inviting them to visit so that they can audit us and observe how we run the systems. We have had very good experiences with that, he notes. - Many of our colleagues consider it to be simple component tasks, but that is not how we see our role at all. We must be the ones to challenge the systems so that the processes can be streamlined all the way from components to finished wind turbines," says Erik Gammelgaard in conclusion. ABOUT EAST METAL A/S The company employs approximately 650 employees at its head office in Esbjerg and three factories - one in Nakskov and three in Latvia. East Metal's outsourcing concept means that the product is produced in the most suitable factory. This ensures competitiveness in both delivery time and price, while specialization in welding, machining, surface treatment, tensile testing, and assembly provides a certified quality according to the customer's expectations. Deliveries to the wind turbine industry include nacelle (as well as parts thereof), platforms, pitch systems, structural frames, and all necessary transport and lifting equipment. Meet East Metal at booth C1-B71 at WindEurope Offshore 2019 in Bella Center the 26th to 28th of November 3 WIND DANI S H QUALIT Y Commercial Content MAGAZINE N OVEMBER 2019 Danish Quality page 4 Huge special transports page 10-11 Harbour Logistics page 7 & 12 NMInsights. 2 DANISH QUALITY WIND MAGAZINE COMMERCIAL CONTENT Welcome to the Danish Quality Wind Magazine W e take this opportunity to salute the Danish Wind industry because it is the birthplace of modern wind energy as we know it. From humble beginnings in the mid- and west of Jutland in the beginning of DANISH QUALITY WIND MAGAZINE COMMERCIAL CONTENT From small components to 600-ton steel structures For more than 20 years, East Metal A / S has supplied high-quality components and steel structures to leading wind turbine manufacturers. 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