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“ Over the last 12 months, we’ ve continued our investments across all of our business areas,” James begins.“ We’ ve been completing our high voltage subsea cable manufacturing facility in Blyth, which will produce large, longlength power cables to service the offshore energy industry, as well as supply additional capacity for the energy infrastructure markets. This project is now at the end of its third year, and we shall achieve practical completion in the next few weeks, with the machines being installed and running prototype cables ready for commercial operations.
“ This new facility marks the next stage of our expansion at JDR. Our Hartlepool facility has been supplying cables to the offshore wind market for the last 16 years, but our new Blyth facility now gives us the capability to produce higher voltage, long-length cables for the array and export cable markets. It’ s been an amazing journey.”
The significant investment made into this new facility is not only expanding JDR Cables’ manufacturing footprint but reshaping the scale and scope of what it can deliver to the offshore market. By strengthening its capabilities in high-voltage and longlength cable production, JDR Cables is wellpositioned to meet accelerating demand across offshore wind, energy infrastructure, and decarbonization projects, ready to support the next wave of growth across the sector.“ Our strategy has been focused on looking at a balanced range of products and services across the energy space, which has been beneficial to us. There’ s a huge growth in offshore wind, especially since the UK Government announced the results of the CfD Allocation Round 7. At JDR, we work with the Offshore Wind Industry Council and the government to promote the industry, so it’ s great to see many of those developers
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