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Thorne & Derrick’s POWER Blog is regularly updated with news, projects, videos, technical tips, training information, promotions, webinars, career opportunities and white papers.
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We focus on Product Categories: Duct Seals | Cable Cleats | Cable Glands | Electrical Safety | Arc Flash Protection | Cable Jointing Tools | Cable Pulling | Earthing | Feeder Pillars | Cable Joints LV | Joints & Terminations MV HV
We provide guidance and technical support for the installation of LV, MV & HV Cable Joints, Terminations, Substation & Electrical Equipment from our Key Suppliers including:
| 3M |
CMP |
Ellis Patents |
| Nexans Euromold |
Elastimold |
Pfisterer |
| Prysmian |
Alroc |
CSD |
| Roxtec |
CATU Electrical |
Cembre |
| Lucy Zodion |
ABB |
Emtelle |

With Photo Blog contributions from our social network of utility professionals, linesmen and cable jointers working on MV HV EHV cables and overhead lines typically at 11kV, 33kV, 66kV and up to 132kV.
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Published 08 Jan 2020
Republished with the kind permission of Derek Thompson from Electrical Training Trust SparkSafe Ltp has emerged from the Electrical Training Trust. Established in 1998 by employers, Electrical Training Trust has championed the development of employer-Led Level 3 electrical apprenticeship training and adult worker upskilling. Electrical Workforce Composition We analysed...
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Published 08 Jan 2020
uploaded by Chris Dodds - Thorne & Derrick Sales | Marketing Manager According to Mckinsey & Company under the current growth trajectory, EV producers could almost quadruple production in 2020, moving 4.5 million units, around 5 percent of the overall global light electric vehicle market. This rapid increase in...
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Published 08 Jan 2020
Images Courtesy of: Euan Palmer – Cable Technician at Prysmian Cables. Cable Jointers: Euan Palmer, Alex Hope, David Barnes. Nexans Euromold are world leaders in the manufacture of Screened Separable Connectors to enable the termination of medium voltage power cables onto outer cone bushings of electrical equipment including switchgear, transformers and motors. In...
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Published 07 Jan 2020
uploaded by Chris Dodds - Thorne & Derrick Sales | Marketing Manager Thorne and Derrick, the UK’s Specialist Distributor of LV HV Jointing, Earthing, Substation & Electrical Eqpt have provided customised MV Jointers Tool Kits to JDR Cable Systems – JDR based in the UK are world leading cable...
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Published 07 Jan 2020
uploaded by Chris Dodds - Thorne & Derrick Sales/Marketing Manager NEPTCO revolutionised the tracer wire market when it introduced Trace Safe, the world’s first tracer wire that incorporated water blocking technology to protect the solid copper conductor from water ingress. There are two distinct products that incorporate many of...
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