EoW January 2013

Corporatenews

▲ ▲ Wire rope heading onto the take-up stand at Neptune Quay, site of Bridon’s new plant

New plant for the world’s largest wire ropes

the opening event offered a range of technical seminars for attending industry leaders, designed to demonstrate Bridon’s unique services offering. customers get the most out of Bridon’s highly complex ropes, this package provides tailored support throughout a rope’s development, installation and application.
 Neptune Quay is already taking on orders from major multinational operators, and its production schedule is designed to cater to the highest possible levels of demand. The factory’s portside location, along with its state-of-the-art take-up stand for lifting reels directly from dock to vessel, will help Bridon to significantly improve logistics. Bridon International Ltd – UK Website : www.bridon.com Focused on ensuring Now operational, Bridon

constructed to a unique specification by German engineering company SKET, will allow the company to produce far more complex ropes than had ever previously been possible with such weights. Pulling the lever to activate the machine was UK business minister Michael Fallon, who praised Bridon for establishing a global technology leadership position through its consistent investment in innovation. Accompanying Bridon chief executive Jon Templeman at the event were a host of senior industry figures including Certex CEO Peter Keith and NOV Cranes division head Oddvar Hoydal, who noted how Bridon’s highly engineered ropes could improve their companies’ heavy lifting and deepwater deployment capabilities.
 In addition to the switching-on of the facility’s rope-closing machine,

Industry leaders from companies including Heerema, NOV and Certex assembled in Northern England to watch UK business minister Michael Fallon open a facility that will manufacture the world’s largest ropes.

 Neptune Quay (BNQ), a state-of-the-art factory constructed by Bridon International, which will produce the largest and most complex offshore ropes in the world. The facility will have the capacity to produce highly engineered ropes in package weights of 650 tonnes, boasting enhanced breaking loads, optimised bend fatigue performance, effective lubrication, and minimal rotation under load.

 The occasion was marked by the switching-on of the factory’s rope-closing machine, which is the largest of its kind in existence. The machine, which was The event marked the start of manufacturing at Bridon

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