Dutch Smulders secures future of UK offshore wind specialist

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Dutch steel engineering group acquires Lowestoft-based offshore wind farm components outfit SLP Energy

The list of European firms investing in the UK's nascent offshore wind sector has expanded yet again, following the acquisition last week of the energy division of troubled Norfolk firm SLP Engineering...

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