Product range
Wire, Rigging & Lifting
Wire rope, slings, thimbles and shackles for anchor legs, bridles and site lifting.
Industries
Aquaculture
A farm is a mooring problem and a netting problem. Both are trades we already run at scale, spliced and hung in our own shops — and where an assembly has to be proof tested, the bed is ours.
- Test bed, in-house
- 500,000 lbTest bed, in-house
- Branches with counters
- 4Branches with counters
- Trades under one company
- 6Trades under one company
Why us, for this
Everything holding a site in place is rope, wire, netting or hardware.
An aquaculture site is a mooring system with stock inside it. The grid, the bridles, the cage moorings, the predator net and the harvest gear are all made from the same four materials we splice, net, weld and test every day for the fishing fleet — and they fail in the same weather.
So we come at a farm from the trades rather than from a catalogue. Assemblies are made to a length and a load in our own shops. Netting is cut and hung in the same lofts that build trawls. And because the 500,000 lb bed is ours, sitting at Paradise, a termination can be proved before it is trusted rather than quoted from somebody else's table.
- Cage moorings
- Grid systems
- Predator nets
- Splicing in-house
- Proof testing
- Site support
- Custom fabrication
What we do for a site
Moorings, netting, and the work that keeps them in service.
Exposed sites punish the weakest termination on the system. These are the pieces we make, prove and maintain.
Cage moorings and grid systems
Bridles, grid lines, cage moorings and anchor legs assembled to the site plan — rope, wire or a combination, spliced and terminated by hand to the length the plan calls for.
Splicing in every dimension
Rope and wire spliced in all dimensions, eyes covered on manufacture where you want them protected, and wire clamped in the press where a mechanical termination is the right answer.
Predator nets and cage netting
Supplied, cut, hung and rigged — and repaired. Netting is the trade this company has run longest, and a predator net is a netting job before it is an aquaculture product.
Proof testing before it goes in
Rigging and lifting assemblies pulled on our own 500,000 lb bed, with a test certificate issued for each item stating what was tested and to what load.
Inspection through the season
Hands-on inspection of rope, wire and lifting gear, with site inspection available for supported work — because a mooring is inspected in place, not on a bench.
Floats, buoys and site hardware
Flotation, shackles, thimbles, chain and the hardware a grid lands on, stocked at the counters and made up into assemblies here.
Shellfish gear
Oyster and mussel supplies — tumblers, spat catchers, crates, cages and knives — alongside the moorings that hold the lines.
One-off site equipment
Netted frames, sorting and holding structures, covers and custom canvas — built to the drawing or to measurements taken on site.
What an assembly is made to
A length, a load, and a termination you can check.
Aquaculture assemblies are made to order, so the useful specification is not a part number — it is what the assembly is built from and how it is finished.
| Assembly | Made from | Terminated | Proved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grid and bridle lines | Rope to the site plan — including DynIce and Dyneema constructions | Hand-spliced eyes, covered on manufacture where specified | Proof tested on our bed where the job calls for it |
| Anchor legs and mooring assemblies | Wire rope, rope, or a combination | Hand splice, or clamped in the press | Test certificate issued per item, on request |
| Cage netting | Netting cut and hung in the loft | Laced, roped and hung to the frame | Fitted and checked before it leaves |
| Predator nets | Netting to the site's mesh and depth | Roped and rigged to the cage | Repaired and re-hung in service |
| Lifting gear for the site | Slings, shackles, thimbles, chain | Made up to the load | Inspected by hand; pulled on the bed to 500,000 lb capacity |
Scroll the table sideways for all 4 columns.
Splicing reduces a rope's strength against the table figure — Hampidjan's own rope tables allow for up to 10%. Assemblies are sized with that accounted for, and the bed is next door when it needs proving rather than assuming.
In the shops
The trades a mooring is actually made of.
These are our own shops rather than anybody's site — we will not show you somebody else's farm. Netting, flotation, splicing, testing: this is where the gear is made, terminated, proved and recorded.
Netted on the floor
A netted enclosure made up in the shop — mesh hung to its hoops and roped off by hand, standing among the netting it was built from. Netting is where this company started, and a net that has to hold stock is cut and hung to the same standard as one that has to hold a catch.
Flotation, made off
A float line with its hardware made off — floats threaded on braided rope, a galvanised shackle joining the run, netting laid out alongside. Grid lines and cage moorings are made up the same way, to the lengths the site plan calls for.
Spliced by hand
A heavy wire rope clamped in the vice with its strands opened out, tucked back into the rope one at a time. It is slow, and it is the termination we reach for when the assembly has to be inspected in service — and where a pressed ferrule is the right answer instead, that is done in this building too.
Proved on the bed
A spliced assembly under load on our 500,000 lb bed at Paradise, made off to a master link through a bow shackle. The number on the certificate is one we watched, not one we looked up.
Tagged and recorded
Chain, shackles, eye bolts and slings, inspected item by item and going back with a tag tied to each one — so a site's mooring and lifting equipment can be run as a programme with a record behind it instead of a memory.
Four shops
Sites are remote. The counter should not be.
Aquaculture sites are a long way from a supplier, and the gear that fails is rarely the gear you planned to replace. Four branches with walk-in counters means the shackle, the rope or the netting is a drive away rather than a freight order.
A counter at every branch
Rope, netting, rigging hardware, flotation and safety gear off the shelf at Paradise, Spaniard's Bay, Port au Choix and Dartmouth.
Work moves between the shops
One company, four buildings. A job that needs the loft, the welder and the bed is moved between them rather than split between suppliers.
Development
When a site needs something that is not made yet.
Most of what a farm needs exists. The interesting work is the rest of it — a frame for a handling problem nobody has solved, a net to a mesh nobody stocks, a sampling tool for a monitoring programme.
That is the same technical capacity this company applies to fishing gear: design and construction of prototypes, customised research technologies and sampling tools, customised canvas for industrial and scientific applications, and environmental monitoring and field sampling. A technical team works on applied research and commercial development here, and we work under non-disclosure where the development is sensitive.
Prototypes
Built from a drawing, a sketch or the broken thing — in steel, rope, netting or canvas, whichever the problem needs.
Research and sampling gear
Customised research technologies and specialised sampling tools, built to the scale a study needs.
Environmental monitoring
Monitoring and field sampling work, alongside the gear built to carry it out.
Advice on ropes and wires
Consultancy for industry, government and academia on technical problems in rope, wire and prototype construction.
Solutions
What holds a site together, and who makes it.
The gear is stocked and the assemblies are made here. Both come out of the same four shops.
Gear we supply to sites
All products
Product range
Rope & Cordage
DynIce and Dyneema constructions, mooring rope and the cordage a grid is built from.
Trades behind it
All services
Service
Rope Splicing & Rigging
Rope and wire spliced in all dimensions, made to a length and a load, terminated by hand or in the press.
Service
Inspection & Testing
Hands-on inspection, site inspection for supported work, and proof testing on our own bed.
Service
Custom Marine & Industrial Solutions
Netted frames, handling structures and one-off site equipment built to your drawing or ours.
Service
Trawl & Net Services
Netting cut, hung, rigged and repaired in the same lofts that build trawls.
FAQ
What buyers ask us about Aquaculture
Yes. Bridles, grid lines, cage moorings and anchor legs are assembled to the plan — in rope, wire rope or a combination — spliced and terminated by hand to the lengths it specifies. If you have a designer's drawing we work to it; if you have the site and not the drawing, we work from measurements.
Yes, and it is one reason we own the equipment. Rigging and lifting assemblies can be pulled on our own 500,000 lb bed at Paradise, and a test certificate is issued for each item stating what was tested and to what load. It is our document about your item — we are not offering third-party approval.
Both. Hands-on inspection of rope, wire and lifting gear happens at the shops, and site inspection is available for supported work. A mooring in service is inspected where it is.
It reduces it. Hampidjan's own rope tables allow for splicing taking up to 10% off the table breaking strength, and we size assemblies with that accounted for. Where the margin matters, the assembly can be proof tested rather than calculated.
Yes. Four branches with walk-in counters cover Newfoundland & Labrador and Nova Scotia, stock can be held against a site's standard specification, and work that needs more than one shop — the loft, the welder and the bed — is moved between our own buildings rather than between suppliers.
Yes — oyster and mussel supplies including tumblers, spat catchers, crates, cages and knives, alongside the mooring and line gear the operation runs on.
Yes. Netted frames, handling and holding structures, customised canvas for industrial and scientific applications, and research and sampling gear are all built here, from a drawing or from a problem. We work under non-disclosure where the development is sensitive.
Start a quote. We route it to the right branch.
Send specs, photos, drawings, or inspection and testing requests. Your reply comes from the branch that will do the work.