The company brings engineering, specialist personnel, equipment and port infrastructure together under one operating model for complex marine and industrial projects.

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Established in 1994 and employing around 100 people, Futura develops and delivers technology-driven solutions and services for complex industrial and maritime projects.

Over more than three decades, the company has built specialist technical, management and operational capabilities, backed by continuous training and investment in technology and innovation.

Its central proposition is integration: engineering, qualified personnel, vessels and vehicles, specialist equipment and company-owned infrastructure are coordinated within a single workflow.

Rather than supplying isolated services, Futura coordinates multiple activities within the same project. This gives clients a single point of contact for multidisciplinary scopes and allows work packages to run in parallel.

According to the company, the model can shorten execution and vessel turnaround times, reduce downtime, improve cost control and support a faster response when project conditions change.

Core capabilities

At the commercial port of Gaeta, Futura operates a company-owned hub for materials, equipment and cables serving the energy and telecommunications sectors. The company also has its own storage area at the port of Pozzuoli.

The Gaeta hub includes two 12,000-ton cable carousels, one 7,000-ton cable carousel, one additional 2 ,000- ton carousel under construction, available to rent, and two spare-cable platforms.

With dedicated infrastructure, equipment and specialist personnel, Futura can manage cable and equipment reception, handling, storage and preparation in-house, with a focus on operational efficiency, safety and flexibility.

Futura is authorised as a port operator under Article 16 of Italy’s Law 84/94 and also operates under Article 18, 68 of the same legislation.

Futura designs and builds cable carousels, static cable platforms and cable tanks for safe and efficient coiling and storage operations. Its carousels can accommodate up to 12,000 tonnes, while static platforms can be engineered without a stated capacity limit.

The company also manages international transport, installation, commissioning and maintenance all over the world. With 3 cable spoolers machines capable of operating at tensions of up to 20 tonnes and handling loads of up to 60 tonnes, and quadrant e tensioners up to 15 tons to handle every type of cable.

The equipment can be deployed for winch and crane ropes, umbilicals, fibre-optic cable reels and power cables.

Futura carries out onboard works, including emergency scopes and projects with tight delivery windows. Services range from new-system installation to maintenance, repair, modification and upgrades of existing systems and components.

The company can also temporarily set up general cargo vessels for cable transport. Its scope extends from vessel selection and chartering to the installation of cable tanks, carousels and dedicated handling systems, followed by operational mobilisation.

Futura coordinates design, handling, storage, transport, installation and maintenance as one operating process. Deploying expertise, people, equipment and infrastructure at the same time allows activities to proceed in parallel, helping reduce execution time and minimise vessel downtime.

For clients, the company says this can simplify project management, shorten schedules, improve operational efficiency and provide more direct control over costs.

Futura at a glance

With around 120 employees and more than 20 years of experience, COMEP provides integrated electrical, electronic and cable services for energy, telecommunications and rail projects.

www.comepsrl.net

COMEP has developed experience in managing complex projects in Italy and internationally, building a specialist knowledge base for industrial settings with demanding technical and organisational requirements.

The company deploys qualified personnel, technical expertise and operational capacity across offshore and onshore environments. Its scope ranges from power and telecommunications cable services to the production, installation and maintenance of electrical and electronic systems.

COMEP supplies specialist personnel and technical services for land and subsea power and fibre-optic cables. Staff receive ongoing technical training through the company’s internal academy, which is also used during the start-up and mobilisation of operational teams.

The main areas of expertise include:

These capabilities allow COMEP to support technically complex scopes governed by stringent safety and quality requirements.

One of COMEP’s core strengths is its pool of specialists certified to work onboard vessels and offshore platforms and qualified to joint a range of land and subsea cables.

The company performs subsea fibre-optic joints for both shallow- and deep-water applications across three cable configurations: stand-alone subsea fibre-optic cables; three-phase systems in which optical elements branch through a three-core power cable; and embedded optical elements integrated with the power cable and its metallic armour.

COMEP reports an international track record projects that you can find on www.comepsrl.net.

COMEP’s helpers work on low, medium and high-voltage cables in line with client procedures and technical specifications. Training is delivered through the internal academy and client training schools to keep technical and operational skills current.

The company’s jointing helpers scope covers unarmoured land power cables, with dedicated joint-protection solutions; steel-armoured subsea power cables handled offshore onboard vessels or platforms; and factory or diameter joints that rebuild the cable’s original diameter, insulation layers and construction characteristics.

COMEP complements its jointing and installation services with cable testing and diagnostics to verify system performance and integrity.

Its diagnostic and electrical test equipment includes the Megger MIT1525, BAUR 4000, BAUR 2000 and Teleflex VX-PT V2 for insulation measurement, fault location and analysis of cable electrical characteristics.

COMEP provides client representatives for onshore and offshore projects. Acting as the project manager’s operational point of contact at site, they coordinate, supervise and monitor ongoing activities.

In the rail sector, COMEP supports projects from system production and wiring to integration, commissioning and final vehicle testing.

Comep and Futura grant responsive time reaction to new requests, as jointing, testing, operators, welders, mechanics teams are generally organized in only 1-2 days notice. In the organization is included all the equipment necessary and logistic arrangements.

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