Hobko Fasteners Ltd are wholesale suppliers of fasteners, adhesives, workwear and tools. They are based in Whitstable.

The Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services to provide insight into the relevant offshore wind markets and recommendations to enable successful market entry. This included market forecasts, insight into procurement strategies and marketing advice.

HV Wooding has been established for over 50 years. The HV Wooding team has over 100 people over multi-sited facilities totalling 53,000 sq. ft. in Hythe. Services include presswork & tooling; busbars; laser cutting; wire erosion; CNC machining; sub assembly design assistance and prototyping, assembly and testing of finished products.

The Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services provided insight into the European market opportunity, competitors profile, market entry strategy recommendations and an overview of offshore wind electrical systems.

LED-UK Lighting Ltd help design, supply and install a bespoke LED lighting systems. Current business is focussed on onshore commercial, leisure and educational properties. LED-UK Lighting Ltd wanted to explore opportunities within the growing offshore wind sector, having already had positive interactions with Vattenfall.

The Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services provided advice on how to engage further in the offshore wind supply chain, industry procurement strategies and how to become a supplier to the industry so they could uncover potential opportunities themselves

Pettit Group are a construction and civil engineering group of companies, delivering project management, cost consultancy, contracting, labour supply and recruitment UK wide to their industries. They are based near Sandwich. It is looking to explore opportunities within the growing offshore wind sector, around its core business pillars of civil engineering and labour supply. Pettit Group already has a clear idea of what it can supply the OSW sector. The Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services delivered support to enable it to fully engage with this new market. Support delivered included identification of key market players, key UK project information, tendering support and key potential clients.

Terra Drone is the world’s number one industrial drone service providers. They are based in Sittingbourne. Key areas of activities are aerial survey, drone-based infrastructure inspection, drone data processing and analysis. Terra Drone is looking to explore opportunities within the growing offshore wind sector around its drone survey business.

The Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services to provide insight into the international offshore wind markets, how to deliver innovation to the offshore wind market and provided recommendations to enable successful market entry.

Truecut specialise in diamond drilling and sawing and are based in Aylesham. They have developed a reputation for professional, on-budget and on-time work. Most work is done in London and the south east with other projects in the midlands, south coast and internationally in the Middle East. Although opportunities in offshore wind are likely to be limited due to the nature of the services provided by the company Kent County Council’s Kent Wind Energy business support services were able to provide global market intelligence and a list of potential clients in the ports sector.