
Tratos
Manufactures bespoke umbilical cables and, with a Brazilian partner, composite subsea umbilicals for offshore oil production.
Tratos is a cable manufacturer producing electrical, telecommunications, fibre optic, and other specialized cables for a wide range of applications. It serves worldwide markets and concentrates on supplying consistently good quality products with short lead times, backed by service, advanced technologies, innovation, and bespoke solutions where a project calls for them. Its core business covers cables for energy transmission and distribution, telecommunications, and instrumentation, along with tailored cables for demanding or unusual projects. The energy range includes low-, medium-, and high-voltage cables, overhead conductor cables, cathodic protection cables, and cables approved for distribution network operators. The telecommunications range includes copper and fibre optic cables for signaling and data transmission. Its special cables cover airports, fire resistance, high temperature, marine use, medical equipment, mining, oil and gas, railways and mass transit, reeling, renewable energy, submarine applications, tunnelling, and umbilicals. Tratos combines traditional cable production with innovative development. It has produced superconductors used in projects such as Fusion For Energy and CERN in Geneva, and it runs a significant research and development effort aimed at improving the environmental performance of its cables. The company works sustainably and in an environmentally friendly way, with environmental and social commitments covering health and safety, fair working hours and wages, disciplinary procedures, freedom of association, and collective bargaining, together with zero tolerance for discrimination and forced or compulsory labour. Tratos operates as a service-oriented industrial group as well as a manufacturer. Its services include cable drums storage, commissioning, cable installation services, and cable terminations. Laboratories, research and development, product search, catalogues, compliance and policy information, and a whistleblowing portal form part of its broader corporate infrastructure. Taken together, Tratos is a global, multi-facility cable maker serving utility, transport, industrial, renewable energy, offshore, and specialist engineering markets with both standard and tailor-made products, able to supply a routine distribution cable and a one-off submarine or umbilical design from the same business.