Director's pride at huge Hull job creation as super-sized blades enter production at Siemens Gamesa

The immense pride in creating 300 more jobs as a new super-sized blade enters production has been expressed by Siemens Gamesa’s Hull plant director.

Andy Sykes leads the offshore wind manufacturing base at one of the most exciting times in its first decade of operations, as the footprint doubling completes.

This week has seen the call go out to start the recruitment process to build the team to support the increased capacity, with a special event taking place in the city, while work on a 108m long new model began. They will be used on 14MW turbines to be installed at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm, as the industry continues to scale up.