# JDR installs new horizontal layup machine for steel tube umbilicals

JDR installed a new 40m-long horizontal layup machine (HLM) at its Hartlepool facility, the largest of its type in the world, to manufacture steel tube umbilicals for offshore oil and gas and renewables.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-05-01
- Where: Hartlepool, Northeast England, United Kingdom
- Starts operating: Aug 2016
- Status: completed
- Capacity: up to 4000-tonne component load, 6.5m/min winding speed
- Products: steel tube umbilicals, flying leads
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [JDR](https://endata.com/companies/17103.md)

## Sources

- [oedigital.com](https://www.oedigital.com/news/446682-flexible-to-the-core), 2017-05-01: "The impressive unit is able to wind 17 functional layers into a steel tube dynamic, static or deepwater umbilical."

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