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Survey work, prior to installation as well as throughout an asset’s lifecycle, will become increasingly important to Acteon Group.

To start us off, can you give a ‘by the num- nologies that are central to your future?

bers’ look at Acteon Group today?

I’ll pick three to emphasize. One of our divisions spe-

The group overall has a turnover about half a billion cializes in survey work, both ahead of installation of in- pounds in revenue, and we have about 2,000 employ- sea infrastructure and then post installation for ongoing ees worldwide, working in three global divisions. We’ve integrity and inspection monitoring; that technology is worked on more than 80 major renewable projects and an area that we are going to emphasize going forward, as we’ve installed almost 2,500 driven monopile foundations there’s going to be such a huge amount of infrastructure for wind farms. We’ve completed more than 1,000 moor- going in the sea over the next few years. Where we see real ing installations, 300 decommissioning projects, and we’ve technological advancement is in putting sensor packages worked in over 100 countries. on autonomous vehicles, surface or subsurface.

Another area where we’re putting a lot of innovation is around geotechnical site investigation, particularly with

When you look at the industries you serve, the building need for the installation of big offshore wind what do you consider to be the key tech-

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