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Peter Imlah, technology director,

EPIC says: “With technology like SeeByte, you can also better integrate control systems, allowing programming from point A to B, which, using sonar, the vehicle can then navigate. The long- term aim is to reduce the manpower needed to operate an ROV. For every

ROV you need a team of 6-7 people.

There will be more automation of activity, more reliability, and less maintenance.”

SMD itself is a key tenant in the region, designing and manufacturing ploughing and trenching equipment,

ROVs, used globally, and now also deepsea mining technology.

TAG Energy’s production hall on Teeside creates ofshore wind farm monopile and

It is currently completing production transition pieces with a 24/7 operational linear manufacturing line. of three, heavy-duty, deepsea mining machines—an auxiliary machine, a IHC Engineering Business, based in Plans were launched earlier this year bulk cutter, and a collection machine, Stocksfeld. It has designed a new for a new national subsea engineering incorporating technology from trenching system, Hi-Traq, specifcally center, the Neptune National Centre for

Caterpillar and Sandvik, for Canadian for the burial of onshore wind farm Subsea and Offshore Engineering, to be operator Nautilus to carry out copper, inter-array power cables. led by Newcastle University, as part of silver, and gold mining on the seabed Product and systems develop- a drive to develop new materials and off Papua New Guinea. ment is a strong focus for the region, technologies.

Another frm meeting new mar- which is looking to build on its subsea The region has applied for funding kets is IHC Merwede subsidiary expertise. for new hyperbaric testing facilities, for

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