Orange Marine orders 2 new vessels
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.
Epsilon Composite opens Indian subsidiary
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.
LS Cable & Wire reports U.S. busduct deal, under-way Mexican plant will be part of it
LS Cable & System will supply high-capacity busduct power distribution systems to AI data centers for a major U.S. tech company under a three-year framework agreement expected to exceed $340 million, leveraging expanded production in Korea, Vietnam, and a new Mexico plant while LS Eco Energy grows its Southeast Asian data center business.
Primetals Technologies gets okay for its upgrade to a troubled French rod wire mill
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.
Danieli reports it will build Australia’s 1st greenfield steel mill in 4 decades
Alter Steel has selected Danieli to equip a $750 million greenfield steel mill in Pinkenba, Queensland, that will use MIDA QLP minimill technology with Digimelter and Q-One power feeder to turn local scrap into 500,000 metric tons per year of long products while cutting CO₂ emissions about 80% versus blast furnaces by 2027.