Hydro Group expands facilities

Aberdeen-based subsea cable and connection specialist Hydro Group has expanded its premises by investing £2 million in a new facility, set to open in spring 2016.

The development of a new 13,700 sq ft facility at the Aberdeen Energy Park follows on from a £300,000 investment last year in the advanced armour line, which extended Hydro Group’s product capabilities, enabling it to offer cable products to improve and support subsea operations, the company informed.

Hydro Group currently occupies a 45,500 sq ft facility at the Aberdeen Energy Park, purchasing the additional 0.63 acres of development land from Buccleuch Property and Moorfield Group to enable it to expand operations and develop a new workshop.

The company, an Energy Park occupier since 2008, designs and manufactures underwater cables and connectors for subsea, underwater, topside and onshore applications. It will use the space to install its new armouring line, facilitate a pressure testing area, and for additional storage, Hydro Group said in a press release.

Doug Whyte, Hydro Group Managing Director, said: “The new facility and additional space was required in order to diversify and develop our business. We are now able to manufacture mechanically protected cables which can withstand higher stresses in subsea and defence operations, and the extra space means that we can also offer greater capacity in size and overall lengths.”

To remind, Hydro Group was part of Scottish-French consortium that won a contract to manufacture and install the array cabling infrastructure on the SEM-REV marine renewable energy project off France, opened in August 2015.

Also, the company secured a contract with Atlantis Resources to supply connection systems for the MeyGen tidal array project.