Jäger enters new waters

“Jaeger Mare Solu­tions“ is the name of the youngest mem­ber of the Jäger Group. The new com­pa­ny focus­es on prod­ucts and ser­vices for envi­ron­men­tal and marine pro­tec­tion. We spoke with man­ag­ing direc­tor David Baum about the start, activ­i­ties and the future plans.

Mr. Baum, since 01.01.2019 you have been man­ag­ing direc­tor of the new­ly found­ed Jaeger Mare Solu­tions GmbH. For Jäger, this step means going from land to sea, from onshore wind ener­gy projects to the con­struc­tion of even larg­er off­shore plants in the sea.

David Baum:
That’s right. Jäger Gum­mi und Kun­st­stoff has been a rec­og­nized sup­pli­er for wind ener­gy for many years. Wind ener­gy has been one of Jäger’s busi­ness seg­ments for many years. Up to now, the focus has been on prod­ucts for the con­struc­tion of onshore plants, i.e. plants that are installed on land. Now off­shore wind ener­gy has also moved into focus: Jäger has set up its own com­pa­ny specif­i­cal­ly for this pur­pose and is active in the con­struc­tion of wind tur­bines on the high seas with “Jaeger Mare Solu­tions”. With Jaeger Mare Solu­tions, we are con­cen­trat­ing on our core busi­ness and are work­ing on pen­e­trat­ing the off­shore mar­ket in the areas of scour, noise and cor­ro­sion pro­tec­tion.

What exact­ly are the products?

David Baum:
Put sim­ply, there are three areas: Pro­tec­tors for pro­tec­tion against cor­ro­sion, per­fo­rat­ed hoses for pro­tec­tion against noise, and basalt bags for pro­tec­tion against scour, i.e. for coastal and bank pro­tec­tion as well as for pro­tect­ing the foun­da­tions of off­shore plants. The pro­tec­tors are attached to the high­ly stressed parts of the wind tur­bine, where the ships dri­ve against each oth­er in order to allow the tech­ni­cians to pass over to the tur­bine. The basalt bags pre­vent the foun­da­tion from being washed around by the ocean cur­rent. Using the per­fo­rat­ed hose, a cur­tain of air bub­bles (a so-called bub­ble cur­tain) is cre­at­ed under water, which reduces the spread of sound waves.