Recognition of a company which is at the forefront of the latest thinking and is using technology or innovation to drive the future.
For more than 40 years Balmoral has enjoyed an enviable reputation for innovation in the design, development and delivery of buoyancy, protection, and insulation products for the offshore energy sector.
The company, which has a presence spanning Europe, North and South America and the Asia Pacific, helps clients resolve their technical challenges by working closely with them from concept development through design, manufacture, testing, delivery and support.
A recent innovation is its Balmoral FibreFlex™ cable protection technology for the offshore wind market.
Balmoral’s unique industry knowledge of designing and manufacturing in polymers and GRP structures enabled it to produce a novel composite of highly elastic polyurethane and polyester fibres. It has effectively created a braided hose style system for the protection of subsea fixed wind power cables.
It’s a game changing technology in the subsea environment which takes advantage of the polymer’s highly elastic behaviour, its long-term subsea durability, excellent abrasion and impact properties, and combines them with the mechanical strength properties of the fibre.
Balmoral identified the individual advantages of each material and conquered each material’s technical challenges by combining them into a composite structure, providing a solution which is greater than the sum of the constituent parts.
Balmoral sees significant global opportunities for FibreFlex technology to play a key role in the developing offshore energy transition movement.
While proud of past achievements, Balmoral’s eyes are firmly on the future. With exploration and production moving into ever deeper and more inhospitable waters the company’s products will continue to play an enabling role in the future success of the industry. Subsea materials and
product development lie at the very core of what Balmoral does as clients demand higher performing, lighter, stronger products for their deepwater projects.
With a high-specification laboratory staffed by multi-skilled technicians the firm is constantly developing the materials used in its products and innovation will play a central role in the company’s future.