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OFFSHORE DIVISION Ropes for Deep Water Mooring www.lankhorstropes.com Member of the Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group, a WireCo WorldGroup company

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OFFSHORE DIVISION COMPANY INFORMATION Lankhorst Ropes is a member of the Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group. With more than 200 years of experience and 1,250 employees we are a worldwide innovative group with fully equipped production sites and R&D departments, located in The Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Brasil, equipped for the production of a wide range of products in maritime and offshore ropes, technical yarns, fishing gear, Pure® composites, recycling and moulding material. In July 2012, the Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group was acquired by WireCo WorldGroup, of Kansas City, Mo, USA....

Lankhorst Ropes The factory is dedicated to the design, production and testing of offshore mooring ropes and specialty products such as deep water installation ropes. Modern production and testing equipment permits all the following activities to be undertaken in-house:- Extrusion of rope yarns Conversion (twisting) of flat yarn into rope yarn Stranding of rope yarns into strands Braiding or twisting of strands into sub-ropes Closing (over braiding) of sub-ropes into mooring ropes Length Measurement System (LMS) under tension <20 tonnes Length marking under tension in 75 m increments Axial...

OFFSHORE DIVISION GAMA 98® ROPE FOR DEEP WATER TETHERS Design GAMA 98® polyester rope tethers are made from high efficiency sub-rope cores laid parallel within an outer braided jacket. Each sub-rope is computer monitored during tether manufacture to ensure all sub-ropes have equal tension and length. Typically, GAMA 98® ropes include 7 to 18 sub-ropes, each sub-rope being of a long lay length 8 x 1 or 12 x 1 construction, which gives a 100% torque free rope. Particle Filter Filter elements are included between jacket and sub-rope cores. They are effective in filtering out particles greater...

Lankhorst Ropes Fatigue Life The fatigue life of polyester rope is typically quoted as being approximately 80 decades superior to steel wire rope. The fatigue life curve of GAMA 98® rope was established during the durability of polyester in Joint Industry Projects. The rope gets up to 10% stronger during initial cycling as the molecule chains in the individual yarns straighten out under constant cyclic loading before losing strength and returning to initial Minimum Breaking Load after approximately 30% of Lankhorst Ropes executed the design and manufacture of GAMA 98® polyester rope tethers...

OFFSHORE DIVISION MODULINE® ROPE FOR MODU OPERATIONS Design MODULINE® polyester ropes are made from high efficiency 3-strand sub-rope cores laid parallel within an outer braided jacket. MODULINE® ropes are manufactured from equal numbers of S & Z (left and right hand) lay sub-ropes to provide a torque neutral construction. Particle Filter Filter elements are included between jacket and sub-rope cores. They are effective in filtering out particles greater than 5 microns whilst allowing free flooding of the rope. Filter systems can be provided to allow for ropes to be pre-installed on the...

OFFSHORE DIVISION These data are for guidance purposes only and are subject to change without prior notice www.lankhorstropes.com Leading Fibre Rope Solutions

GAMA 98® ROPE MADE WITH DYNEEMA® FOR MODU OPERATIONS 100 % Low Variable Neutral Very Low None Excellent 140°C / 260°C Chemical Resistance (jacket) Acids: Alkalis: Very Good: Good Moderate Very Good Ultra violet resistance OFFSHORE DIVISION General characteristics Strength wet/dry: Shock absorption: Specific gravity: Floats/Sinks: Elongation: Water absorption: Abrasion Resistance: Melting Point: GAMA 98® ROPE MADE WITH DYNEEMA® are manufactured from high efficiency sub-ropes cores (strength member) laid parallel within an outer braided jacket (non-strength member). The sub-cores are high...

OFFSHORE DIVISION LENGTH MEASUREMENT & MARKING Ropes for deep water tethers are manufactured under a machine tension of approximately 1 tonne back tension. Lankhorst Ropes have installed a unique Length Measuring System (LMS) for length measurement under a controlled tension. The rope is pre-tensioned to 1% MBL (maximum 20 tonnes) for length measurement in 75m increments. Prototype testing always starts from the same reference tension of 1% MBL. Length accuracy is achieved with a laser gun and mirror which is calibrated to 75m ±3mm. The rope is marked at each 75m increment and the marks,...

OFFSHORE DIVISION SPLICING & TERMINATIONS The GAMA 98® rope construction is suitable for either hand spliced terminations or with socket terminations. The eye splice is engineered for high efficiency strength realisation. To achieve this, each sub-rope is allocated a preset position around the eye so that the load is shared equally by all the sub-ropes. Sub-ropes are colour coded for identification purposes so they have the same position throughout the rope, within each eye and are spliced to themselves. The eyes and splice area are protected with polyurethane. Digital photos at 15 stages...

OFFSHORE DIVISION PACKING & TRANSPORTATION Lankhorst Ropes supply GAMA 98® deepwater tethers spooled onto one-way non-returnable shipping reels/cradles that are designed to meet project specific requirements. Reels and shipping cradles are designed to DNV Rules for Planning and Execution of Marine Operations and/or Noble Denton General Guidelines for Marine Transportations. Certified lifting slings and spreader beams are also provided. MODULINE® ropes for MODU operations can be supplied on reels or in standard or offshore rated containers. Ropes on reels are protected from the environment...