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TTI Launches New Berthing Energy Calculation App

Our new Berth Energy Calculation App is now available to all Optimoor users with a maintenance or login account. Simply log in as usual in the Optimoor customer login area and download the Berthing App accordingly. Calculations are performed in accordance with PIANC 2002 (WG33) guidance. We are busy working on an upgrade to encompass the latest PIANC 2024 (WG211) guidance and will issue an...Read More...

TTI Marine Renewables completes study into 'Failure Implications of Different Mooring Spreads and Lines'

TTI Marine Renewables team have recently completed an in-depth study for the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellent (FOWCoE) assessing the ‘Risk and Failure Implications of Different Mooring Spreads and Number of Mooring Lines’. The summary report is now available to download from the FOWCoE website. Thanks to the OREC team for the collaboration...Read More...

Professor Christopher Burgoyne

Professor Chris Burgoyne We are saddened to learn of the loss of Chris. He was much admired and we are proud of our association with him. He had a formidable intellect. This is perhaps to be expected of a professor at one of the world’s great universities. Our association with him was through his interest in synthetic fibres. Recently Chris had devised a clever way of determining fibre cre...Read More...

Optimoor Seminar 2023 - New Orleans - 7th-8th November

TTI is delighted to announce the relaunch of our ever popular Optimoor Seminar’s. Come and join us in New Orleans on the 7th and 8th November this year to learn about the latest Optimoor developments and features! As with previous seminar this is intended for Optimoor users of all levels of experience. Many features of the program will be discussed and demonstrated. Example moor...Read More...

Navigating the Mooring Landscape – A White Paper by TTI Marine Renewables Ltd

Download white paper Navigating The Mooring Landscape TTI and TTI Marine Renewables Ltd have been working on mooring system design for many years now. What is clear is that it is a highly challenging optimisation process, and the conventional approach of incremental iteration can miss ideal solutions. In the field of FOWT moorings the technical and commercial challenges set out by ...Read More...

Mooring & Anchoring TQ Tool for Floating Offshore Wind - Now Live!

Mooring & Anchoring TQ tool for Floating Offshore Wind – Now Live! A new online Mooring & Anchoring Technology Qualification (TQ) Tool which has been developed to assist stakeholders, including technology developers, to navigate the TQ landscape is now live. It was developed by Inverness based TTI Marine Renewables Ltd in collaboration with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE)...Read More...

John Flory honoured with Gale Foster Award of Merit at Cordage Institute / Eurocord Joint Conference

TTI is honoured that John Flory, one of our founder members was awarded the prestigious Gale Foster Award of Merit at the recent Cordage Institute / Eurocord joint conference held in Vienna. This award acknowledges John’s lifetime of support and achievements in advancing rope technologies and standards throughout the industry. John is pictured below (centre) receiving the award from Koen V...Read More...

TTI Reveals Exciting New OPTIMOOR Developments - 3D Interactive Visuals

TTI’s in house developed OPTIMOOR program is one of the World’s leading and most trusted mooring analysis software packages. With capabilities to model Static, Dynamic, Wave Response, Ship-to-Ship, Tsunami, Passing Ships, and many other features. The TTI Optimoor development team are continuously looking to enhance the programmes capabilities both behind the scenes and to provid...Read More...

TTI Welcomes New Assoicate Consultant in India

TTI is delighted to welcome Animesh Garg who has recently joined us as an associate consultant. Animesh will be focusing mainly on development of our OPTIMOOR mooring analysis software and our business development in India. Animesh has over 9 years of experience in the Oil/Gas industry specifically within maritime projects, commercial freight trading and was at...Read More...

Wave Energy Scotland Awards Arup and Tension Technology Limited Stage 3 Funding

TTI are exited to be awarded this stage 3 funding to further develop our innovative Netbuoy technology. Full Press Release follows: Date: 27th March 2020 &n...Read More...

Mike Parsey - TTI Founder

MICHAEL R. PARSEY It with sadness that we announce the loss of Mike Parsey in October. Mike will be remembered by all in TTI as our founder, business colleague and friend and will be greatly missed. He taught us so much and was always interested in spending time to help and give advice from his immense knowledge of fibre ropes that he had gleaned over his 40 years of service. He was...Read More...

TTI Marine Renewables starts 3 year Floating Wind Project

TTI sister company, TTI-Marine Renewables, are pleased to announce the start of a 3 year floating wind turbine project involving Toda Corporation (Japan), Kyushu University (Japan) and Bridon-Bekaert (Scotland) and TTI-Marine Renewables (Scotland) funded by Scottish Development International in collaboration with the Nippon Foundation. The project will involve the development of a taut synthetic m...Read More...

Optimoor Seminar 2019 - 21st to 22nd October 2019

TTI is pleased to announce that this year’s seminar will take place from the 21st to 22nd October, at the JW Marriott Houston Downtown, Houston, Texas, USA. New and Upcoming Features to be covered include: Scripting Automated OCIMF Reporting Dynamic Batch Analysis Enhanced Dynamic Passing Ship Analysis Network Licence Mooring Lines / Rope Stiffness ...Read More...

TTI wins ~£400k Contract from WES for development of Netbuoy 2 Project

Supported by; Tension Technology International (TTI) are delighted to have been awarded close to £400k contract from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) as one of three projects in its recently announced £1.4M Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes Stage 2 Projects. TTI’s Netbuoy 2 project will focus on two key areas of development. Impermeable coated fabrics to ...Read More...

TTI and Partners Win Prestigious Rushlight Award!

TTI and collaboration partners Nylacast, Brunel University and EMEC (European Marine Energy Centre) were delighted to receive the 'Rushlight Responsible Product or Service Award', at this years awards evening held in late January. The award was given in recognition of the work carried out on new connectors which have been designed under the STORM (Specialised Thimbles ...Read More...

TTI and WES make news

TTI and Wave Energy Scotland [WES] made the news in Tidal Energy Today recently confirming WES's contract award to TTI to investigate subsea moorings for marine renewables. Further details can be found via the following link TTI / WES Award...Read More...

Marine Moorings Masterclass - Creating a STORM

TTI in conjunction with Brunel University and EMEC [European Marine Energy Centre] will be supporting a marine mooring masterclass to be held at Brunel University on the 26th January 2018. The free to register seminar will focus on mooring systems which are critical for the success of offshore floating renewables. In particular the seminar will cover the design of mooring line end ...Read More...

TTI awarded Wave Energy Scotland funded project

TTI is excited to announce that it was one of ten leading partners to be awarded funding as part of a £3m investment by Wave Energy Scotland (WES) in its most recently announced funding awards. The project called NetBuoy, will focus on two key areas of development in coated fabrics to be used in load resistant buoyant modules and fibre rope 'load nets'. TTI will develop the...Read More...

TTI personnel honoured at Houston’s Offshore Energy Centres ‘Hall of Fame’

TTI’s Stephen Banfield, John Flory, Mike Parsey and the late John Hearle were amongst other industry experts and companies honoured in September at a presentation awards evening hosted by Houston’s Offshore Energy Centre in recognition of their work in pioneering the use of polyester ropes in Deepwater Mooring Systems. TTI personnel honoured at Houston’s Offshore Energy Centres ...Read More...

TTI supports specialst rope seminar in Kristiansand, Norway

‘Like being at a Jimi Hendrix concert’ TTI's Nick O'Hear and Steve Banfield joined steel wire specialist Roland Verreet and a specialist audience at a three-day seminar held in Kristiansand, Norway during September. The 50 seminar attendees included larger groups from MacGregor and National Oilwell Varco, in addition to representatives from MHWirth...Read More...

TTI presents at OCEANS's 16 MTS IEEE Conference in Monterey, California

TTI presented a paper on "Mooring Systems for Marine Energy Converters" at the OCEANS 16 Conference in Monterey, California, on September 22. John Flory, President of Tension Technology International LLC, presented the results of TTI's research to develop an '"All Synthetic Mooring System" as reported previously in our news. The paper explains the ...Read More...

MRCF and MESAT Projects in Moorings for Marine Renewables

MRCF (Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund) TTI and TTI Testing have recently completed a major, 2 years, £1.3m UK and Scottish Government funded Carbon Trust grant conducting research into synthetic mooring and anchoring technology for wave, tidal and floating wind. A specially designed nylon rope mooring line has been tested for 2 years and 20 million cycles in tension-tensio...Read More...

Prof. John Hearle MBE

It was with great sadness that we all learned of the death of Prof. John Hearle in June, who was not only a founding member and former chairman of TTI but was also a close colleague and friend to many of us and will be greatly missed. While his contributions to TTI and the wider Textile Industry can never be underestimated, The Guardian recently published an obituary to John which we t...Read More...

TTI is now ISO 9001:2015 certified

TTI is proud to announce its recent achievement in obtaining ISO 9001:2015 by NQA Certification Ltd, Bedfordshire. The ISO certification promotes the development of best practices in the Quality Management System and follows on from TTI Testing’s similar approval in December 2013. The certification demonstrates TTI’s commitment to continuous improvement in quality manag...Read More...

TTI Launches New Look Website

We are delighted to launch our newly redesigned website, with a new cleaner look and enhanced navigation. We’ve kept all the same great content but have streamlined our menus to give you quicker access to items your looking for and make navigation through the site more of an experience. We will be rolling out new pages over the coming months and aim to add additional functionality.&nb...Read More...

TTI and TTI Testing Make the News at ICOE 2016

Tension Technology International and its sister company TTI Testing recently made the news at the International Conference on Ocean Energy [ICOE 2016] in Edinburgh with two articles highlighting our expertise and involvement in projects on the same page of their in-show news letter. If your interested in learning more on how TTI and TTI Testing can assist you in all aspects of moorings ...Read More...