Angle Ring Drives Wind Of Change In UK Energy Sector

Dovetailing with the UK government’s plans for Britain to lead the world in the £4 trillion global market for low carbon environmental goods and services, The Angle Ring Company of Tipton, West Midlands, Europe’s market leader in pipe and plate bending, recognised wind power as a significant potential market as far back as 2003.

Since then, Angle Ring has identified key components in the renewable energy supply chain where its specialist bending services are needed and is now supplying to fabricators of wind and tidal equipment on projects that are reaching full fruition.

One such project, part of the Crown Estates’ ‘Round One’ cycle of wind facilities and one of the most ambitious of its kind ever undertaken in Britain, is an offshore wind and gas farm located in the Irish Sea, ten kilometres off the coast of Walney Island near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, due for completion by the end of 2011.