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High-pressure hydraulics

Hydraulic power networks for industry and offshore.

  • Steel
  • Stainless steel
  • Copper
  • CuNiFe

The expertise

This is HydroExpress’s historical trade: hydraulic power piping networks. Test benches, offshore pipe-lay systems, drilling rigs, mining equipment, tunnel boring machines, dams, crushers, steel industry, we install non-welded high-pressure hydraulic piping in France and for export.

Your challenges

What this expertise solves

  1. 01

    Keeping networks operating under severe pressures and cycles

  2. 02

    Working on critical industrial equipment, in France and internationally

  3. 03

    Reducing production downtime with rapidly deployable teams

  4. 04

    Non-welded joining of high-pressure steel

Services

  • Installation of high-pressure hydraulic piping
  • Hydraulic power networks
  • Test benches
  • Steel industry: rolling mills, hydraulic presses
  • Tunnel boring machines and special machines
  • Offshore: pipe-lay systems, drilling rigs

Materials & inspections

Materials worked

  • Steel
  • Stainless steel
  • Copper
  • CuNiFe

HydroExpress carries out welded and non-welded assemblies, according to the materials and project requirements.

Method

A controlled process

  1. 01

    Needs analysis

    Surveys, drawings, operating and scheduling constraints.

  2. 02

    Technical preparation

    Selection of materials, joining technologies and phasing.

  3. 03

    Procurement / prefabrication

    Tubes, flanges, valves and fittings prepared before arriving on site.

  4. 04

    Team mobilisation

    Trained site workers, accommodated as close as possible to remote sites.

  5. 05

    Installation

    Laying of networks in coordination with the other lots.

  6. 06

    Checks and tests

    Inspections, pressure tests and traceability of the works.

  7. 07

    Handover

    Handover file and support through commissioning.