For the last 13 years, Katwind Enerji (www.katwind.com) has been at the forefront of the wind energy sector, specializing in composite repair services for wind turbine blades and steel structures. Our commitment to excellence and sustainable energy solutions has been a driving force in our growth and global impact.

Comprehensive Project Management Expertise

Beyond repair services, Katwind Enerji excels in project and site management within the wind energy sector. Our skilled teams have been instrumental in realizing over 2000 MW of wind energy projects nationally and internationally. Recently, despite placing second in a turnkey wind turbine procurement tender, we have been chosen by the winning company to manage site operations, affirming our site management expertise.

Strategic Growth and Market Expansion

Our service division aims to generate profit, expand into new markets, and reduce environmental pollution from fossil fuels. Operating with 10 teams, our workforce increases to 40 technicians during peak seasons. While facing competition from both local and global firms, we leverage our niche expertise and strategic investments.

We have invested in man-basket cranes and high-access platforms to support growth, enhancing our capabilities for high-altitude projects. Partnering with a crane firm, we transferred equipment rights and secured long-term access to their fleet, ensuring we remain competitive.

Preparing for International Markets

As we expand, we are getting our teams ready for international operations. We have made substantial progress in negotiations with a German company, to provide services in Germany’s wind energy sector. We are enhancing our personnel’s language skills and ensuring they meet EU qualifications, aiming to have at least two teams operational in Germany by next year.

Innovation Through Robotics and Technology

Katwind Enerji leads the way in robotic R&D initiatives, developing robots for autonomous blade and tower cleaning. We are also exploring autonomous equipment for turbine tower maintenance with ongoing R&D efforts.

We invested in a cloud-based software solution to improve operational efficiency, enabling our employees to log detailed task information from mobile devices and generating valuable data for our operations.

Resilience and Global Reach

Katwind Energy has provided project management and maintenance services across several countries, including Germany, Jordan, Croatia, Pakistan, Japan, Morocco, and Ukraine. Despite the ongoing conflict, we maintain our presence in Ukraine, securing agreements with two major turbine manufacturers and negotiating further contracts with the country’s largest wind energy investment company. Additionally, we are exploring opportunities in Uzbekistan to expand our global presence.

Expertise in Material Supply

Katwind Enerji has developed significant know-how in wind blade repair materials. Through our partnership with Rasswind (https://www.rasswind.com/en/-products–k), we meet material requests through a specialized web portal. Recently, we fulfilled three requests from Pakistan and Chile  and received one from Morocco while actively

SK6000 ring crane redefines modular construction methodologies across heavy industry

Mammoet, the global leader in engineered heavy lifting and transport, has started assembling the world’s strongest land-based crane, the SK6000, at its Westdorpe facility in the Netherlands. 

This monumental project marks a new era in heavy lifting technology, offering unprecedented lifting capacity and reach, and opening up new construction methodologies for large projects. 

The SK6000 ring crane is testament to Mammoet’s commitment to innovation, but also sustainability. The crane will offer full electric operation. This means it enables the transition to cleaner power sources while driving down the carbon impact of energy projects themselves.

The SK6000 has a maximum capacity of 6,000t, and is capable of lifting components up to 3,000t to a height of 220 meters. Its sheer lifting power allows Mammoet customers to build more efficiently in larger pieces, shrinking the logistics, integration and mobilization phases of projects.

The crane provides a huge leap forward for projects in emerging energy sectors, supporting the continued constructability of next-generation wind turbine and foundation components needed to achieve higher yields from offshore wind farms. It also unlocks new modular construction options for nuclear facilities, with increased cost-effectiveness and safety.

In the oil and gas sector, the SK6000 helps new build and expansion projects to benefit from economies of scale on a level never before seen. It builds on the design philosophy of Mammoet’s SK190 and SK350 series, which are proven in the market. 

Following mobilization of all parts to Mammoet’s Westdorpe site, initial works include assembly of the crane’s base frame, power packs and control room. Mammoet’s auxiliary cranes are supporting the build, including two 250-tonne crawler cranes and a 140-tonne Gottwald mobile harbor crane.

Koen Brouwers, Project Manager for the SK6000, said: 

“This is a thrilling new chapter for Mammoet and modular construction in heavy industry, as we see the SK6000 taking shape. 

It will offer a hook height, outreach, and lifting capacity far in excess of any crane on the market. We are excited to bring this groundbreaking technology to our customers, helping them achieve their project goals with greater efficiency and more sustainably.”

Assembly of the SK6000 is scheduled to be completed during Q4 2024. 

Sarılar Group, the leader in heavy lifting and heavy transport sector in Turkey.

Since 1980, we have carried out many significant heavy lifting and heavy transport projects both within the borders of our country and around the world, with high performance and by possessing an understanding of offering high quality services through our experienced operation staff and equipments.

Our business has been growing rapidly through continuous investments in new machineries -such as; mobile and crawler cranes, trailers et c.- and with a devotedness to offering high-quality services and to being sensible to human beings and nature.

“We keep our position as the leader in Turkey”

While keeping its position as the leader in its sector in Turkey, Sarılar Group has been takes necessary actions to attain the leadership in its sector in Europe, as well. We have been carrying out all actionns by aiming to minimize possible damages to our employees, third-parties, materials and environment.

We have been moving higher in the ranking of the sector in Europe and worldwide by offering safe and high quality services by means of all our equipments and staff.

“We undertake to ensure continuity of customer satisfaction”

We are a company that performs all its actions legally and ethically in a customer satisfaction oriented, responsible and innovative approach while putting duly emphasis on confidentiality.

We undertake to ensure continuity of customer satisfaction. While acting with utmost care to protect environment and ensure best occupational health and safety conditions we are also following up the technical developments to improve our services. We endeavour to ensure continuous improvement by quickly and thoroughly assessing the feedbacks we get from our customers.

We instill a responsibility and awareness of health, safety, environment and quality in our employees. We make our planning by taking those points into consideration and ensure active participation of our employees.

While undertaking not to create danger, by working with equipments that produce very low pollution, we are aiming to prevent pollution before it emerges. At all projects we perform we act in conformity with quality, environment, occupational health and safety and customer satisfaction standards.

Certificates Sarılar Group holds are:

ISO 9001:2015 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATE

ISO 14001:2015 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATE

ISO 10002:2014 CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATE

ISO 18001:2017 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATE

“We take meeting customer needs in the most accurate and fast way as our mission”

With the different point of view we have brought to the sector, we carry out activities applying innovations with new technologies through our professional staff experienced in project designing and management. We take meeting customer needs in the most accurate and fast way as our mission.

“Our objective is to be a part of many more domestic and international projects by possessing many more high-tech and high capacity equipments”

One of our main objectives is to add higher capacity equipments to our machinery park and be part of many more great projects. For making our investments we closely follow new models and technologies in the market. We do not just confine ourselves to the advantages we have gained through 38 years of experience; we continuously improve and renovate ourselves.

NUMBER OF ONGOING PROJECTS

45

Some of the projects we have taken part in the year 2018:

1915 Çanakkale Bridge Project

TurkStream Pipeline Project

Yassıada Democracy and Freedom Island Project

Sugözü Thermal Power Plant Project

Cerit Wind Power Plant Project

Kurtini Wind Power Plant Project

Jordan Wind Power Plant Project

Northern Marmara Highway Project

Istanbul 3rd Airport Project

In order to get more information about our company you may visit our website www.sarilar.com.tr or contact us at info@sarilar.com.tr .