[1] After the 2007 acquisition the company established a factory at the Port of Hartlepool at a cost of c. £30 million, enabling easy transhipment of undersea cables direct to ship.
Rotterdame) were sold to Fugro NV, and renamed De Regt Marine Cables.
[2][3] By 2015 the Hartlepool facility had expanded to include 280,000 square feet (26,000 m2) of warehousing and employed 180 persons, driven by orders from the offshore oil and gas and wind industries.
[4] In early 2016 the business began constructing an additional 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) factory at Hartlepool.
[5] In 2021, the firm announced that it would open a new factory near Blyth with both private and state funding.