JDR Cable Systems

JDR Cable Systems is a UK-based provider of subsea power and control technologies for the global offshore energy industry, operating as part of the TELE-FONIKA Kable (TFKable) Group since 2017. The company designs, manufactures and installs subsea power cables, subsea production umbilicals, steel tube umbilicals, intervention workover control systems (IWOCS) and associated accessories and reeler packages. Its products deliver power, control and monitoring for offshore oil and gas fields, fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind farms, and other renewable applications including wave and tidal projects, as well as grid and island links and emerging decarbonisation projects such as carbon capture, usage and storage. JDR’s manufacturing footprint centres on subsea cable and umbilical plants at Hartlepool and Littleport in the UK, supported by TFKable’s Bydgoszcz facility in Poland and a new high‑voltage subsea cable factory under development at Cambois near Blyth. Hartlepool provides deep‑water quayside production of subsea power cables and umbilicals and has been expanded with large vertical and horizontal lay‑up machines to produce complex umbilicals and high‑voltage static and dynamic array cables up to 132 kV, including solutions for floating wind. Littleport acts as a centre of excellence for hose and umbilical manufacture and IWOCS systems. Service and rental activities are delivered through service centres at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tomball (Greater Houston) and Macaé in Brazil, providing engineering, assembly, testing, installation support, repair and asset management for projects in Europe, the Americas and other offshore regions. The company has supplied more than 4,000 km of array cables across at least 57 operational offshore wind projects worldwide, including Beatrice Demonstrator, London Array, Greater Gabbard, East Anglia One, Hornsea 1 and 2, and floating schemes such as WindFloat Atlantic and Hywind Tampen. It is qualifying 132 kV array and export cable technology to support next‑generation turbines and is investing around £130 million, backed by UK government support, to create the UK’s only end‑to‑end high‑voltage subsea cable manufacturing facility at Cambois. JDR participates in the Science Based Targets initiative and the UN Global Compact, has validated net‑zero targets to 2050, reports through CDP and EcoVadis, and is implementing measures such as eliminating gas use at key UK sites, increasing renewable power consumption and achieving high recycling rates to reduce its operational carbon footprint and environmental impact.