Orange Marine orders 2 new vessels

Franceโ€™s Orange Marine has ordered two new subsea telecommunications cableโ€‘laying and repair vessels from Sri Lankaโ€™s Colombo Dockyard, with Vard Design providing fuelโ€‘efficient designs that meet Bureau Veritas and French flag standards and are scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029. Each ship will feature Orange Marineโ€“designed ROVs for cable cutting, inspection, and burial, strengthening a fleet that already accounts for about 12% of the worldโ€™s cable maintenance vessels.

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Epsilon Composite opens Indian subsidiary

Epsilon Composite has launched HindEpsilon Composite in Chennai, India, to drive local manufacturing and deployment of its HVCRC highโ€‘temperature, lowโ€‘sag composite core conductors, supporting Indiaโ€™s โ€œMake in Indiaโ€ push while scaling reconductoring projects and partnerships across multiple Indian states and power sector stakeholders.

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Primetals Technologies gets okay for its upgrade to a troubled French rod wire mill

Primetals Technologies has received a Final Acceptance Certificate from Celsa France after replacing a troublesome thirdโ€‘party finishing block and reform station at the Bayonne wire rod mill with a new 10โ€‘stand Morgan Vee Noโ€‘Twist Mill and patented reform tub, boosting availability, speed, product quality, and cost efficiency for 550,000 tons of lowโ€‘emission rolled products a year.

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