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Orange Marine orders 2 new vessels

12/01/2025

France’s Orange Marine has ordered two new subsea telecommunications cable‑laying and repair vessels from Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard, with Vard Design providing fuel‑efficient designs that meet Bureau Veritas and French flag standards and are scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029. Each ship will feature Orange Marine–designed ROVs for cable cutting, inspection, and burial, strengthening a fleet that already accounts for about 12% of the world’s cable maintenance vessels.

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Epsilon Composite opens Indian subsidiary

12/01/2025

Epsilon Composite has launched HindEpsilon Composite in Chennai, India, to drive local manufacturing and deployment of its HVCRC high‑temperature, low‑sag composite core conductors, supporting India’s “Make in India” 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

12/01/2025

Primetals Technologies has received a Final Acceptance Certificate from Celsa France after replacing a troublesome third‑party finishing block and reform station at the Bayonne wire rod mill with a new 10‑stand Morgan Vee No‑Twist Mill and patented reform tub, boosting availability, speed, product quality, and cost efficiency for 550,000 tons of low‑emission rolled products a year.

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