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Subsea 7 and Technip. The anchor stress. Bridon has applied for a line market is much broader. “We patent for a novel extrusion process, would only produce anchor lines which incorporates strakes in the where some sort of specialist input, sheathing to minimize vortex- or higher level of performance was induced vibration in deepwater required,” explains Templeman. mooring systems. The new center will also be used for rope analysis,

Capacity increase with customers encouraged

A 20% increase in the capacity of to provide feedback on rope the closer enables the manufacture performance and input on future of six- and eight-strand offshore requirements.

wire rope in lengths up to 7000m. Bridon has 11 manufacturing

UK minister for business & enterprise

Neptune Quay’s manufacturing units worldwide with four

Michael Fallon and Bridon CEO Jon capacity is being enhanced factories in the UK: a wire

Templeman at the offcial opening.

further by the relocation of a operation in Doncaster, fber rope spiral stranding machine from Technology Centre in Doncaster, manufacturing at Coatbridge, and the company’s Doncaster factory to develop the next generation of steel rope factories at Neptune and and the installation of a polymer rope solutions. The center will Willington Quays, Newcastle. It exclusion and sheathing line. These be inaugurated this month and has rope factories at Gelsenkirchen, should be operational by May. operating at full capacity by March. Germany; Hangzhou, China; In addition to the signifcant Current avenues of research Jakarta, Indonesia, and Auckland, investment in Neptune Quay, include advanced lubricants, New Zealand. In North America

Bridon has also increased wire and hybrid ropes combining it has a rope factory in Exeter, drawing capacity at Doncaster synthetic materials and steel. The Pennsylvania, a wire operation in with a new £1.75 million wire integration of complex polymers Hanover, Pennsylvania, drawing machine, and is currently and advanced materials into wire and a fabrication service center in investing £4.6 million in the Bridon ropes will reduce compression Oakland City, Indiana.

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