Deepwater advantage for Lankhorst
Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division has relocated its rope production facility for deepwater mooring ropes and single point mooring (SPM) hawsers to a new purpose built factory at Viana do Castello, Portugal.
The new facility covers some 3,600m² of production facilities together with a 2,400m² storage area and will make it easier for the large reels of deepwater mooring rope to be transferred to the quayside ready for load out.
Made from polyester and high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) these ropes are suitable for deepwater mooring projects, including single point mooring of Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring (CALM) buoys for tanker offloading and subsea riser tethers.
The new factory has machines that take the ropes from extrusion through twisting, stranding into sub-ropes and over-braiding into mooring ropes. In addition, there is a rope length measurement and an axial (anti-twist) rope marking unit.
“For the first time, the new factory provides us with a dedicated manufacturing facility for deepwater ropes and SPM hawsers,” said Wilco Stroet, managing director of Lankhorst Ropes.
