Specialist protective coatings contractor Pyeroy Group has had to overcome considerable logistical challenges in undertaking its latest contract – the repainting of one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms.

The company has recently been awarded a Euro 3 million contract for the coatings maintenance and refurbishment of wind turbines at the Arklow Offshore Wind Power Plant in the Irish Sea.

Located on the Arklow Bank about 10km off the coast of County Wicklow and 60km south of Dublin, the wind farm comprises seven, 3.6 megawatt turbines providing renewable energy to meet the electricity requirements of around 16,000 Irish households.

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As part of a six-month refurbishment contract, Pyeroy will carry out the abrasive blast cleaning and repainting of the base sections of all seven tubular steel towers extending from the sea level splash zone to the turbine’s access platform located 13m above.

The special anticorrosion paint specification comprises abrasive blast cleaning followed by the application of a 400 micron glass flake epoxy coating and a urethane acrylic top coat at 50 microns. A specialist compound is also used in the splash zone location.

In addition to the Arklow project, Pyeroy has also recently won a painting refurbishment contract for an offshore windfarm seven miles off the coast of Barrow in Furness.

(CL/SP)