{"id":6608,"date":"2020-12-11T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T10:57:04","slug":"gdes-responsable-del-mantenimiento-de-superficies-del-21-del-parque-nuclear-de-francia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/blog\/2020\/12\/11\/gdes-responsable-del-mantenimiento-de-superficies-del-21-del-parque-nuclear-de-francia\/","title":{"rendered":"GDES responsible for the surface maintenance of the 21% of the nuclear sector in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GDES<\/strong>\u00a0(GD Energy Services) has been awarded a\u00a0<strong>new maintenance contract<\/strong>\u00a0for the surface treatment and anti-corrosion coatings of the reactors in the\u00a0<strong>Blayais and Civaux nuclear power plants in France<\/strong>. This contract is for a period of 5 years, with an option for a further 3 years, and was awarded by\u00a0<strong>EDF (\u00c9lectricit\u00e9 de France)<\/strong>, the largest electricity producer in France and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With this new contract, <strong>GDES<\/strong> is now responsible for <strong>maintenance services<\/strong> at a total of 12 reactors out of the 56 that are active in the country, representing <strong>21.4% of all French nuclear power plants<\/strong>. This means that GDES is now the company with the highest level of surface maintenance and coating activity in the French nuclear industry. The Blayais and Civaux plants have now been added to the <strong>GDES<\/strong> maintenance portfolio, which includes the St. Laurent, Bugey, Cruas and Tricastin plants.<\/p>\n<p>The services to be carried out under this contract will focus on the <strong>maintenance of the special surfaces and coatings<\/strong> required for the exterior and interior areas of the reactors. These tasks are essential to guarantee the correct maintenance of buildings and structures, protecting the plant against erosion and corrosion. For this project, <strong>GDES<\/strong> will deploy 6 professionals at each of the nuclear power plants, plus the support team that will be required for additional tasks that arise during the course of the contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GDES<\/strong> also provides other services in France, such as chemical cleaning, waste management and the comprehensive maintenance of effluent storage tanks in various nuclear power plants. One of the largest projects in which <strong>GDES<\/strong> is participating is the construction of the <strong>ITER<\/strong> fusion reactor, the <strong>largest science and engineering project in the world<\/strong>, located in Cadarache (Provence), where <strong>GDES<\/strong> is the company tasked with applying all the coatings to the main and annex buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>GDES in France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France has the second largest number of nuclear reactors in the world, and the first in Europe: its 56 reactors is surpassed only by the United States, with 98. <strong>GDES<\/strong> has been operating in the French nuclear market for <strong>more than ten years<\/strong>, where it has successfully consolidated its position with <strong>an average annual growth rate of 77% over the last four years<\/strong>, reaching a turnover of 18 million euros in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>H\u00e9ctor Dominguis, CEO of GDES<\/strong>, this award confirms the company\u2019s strong position in the French nuclear market: <em>\u201cTo be in charge of surface and coating maintenance services for 21% of all French nuclear facilities is a great achievement, the result of our efforts and our commitment to offer innovative, reliable and quality services, as strategic allies to our clients; and it is a sign of the impact that we hope to make in France in the coming years\u201d.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tratamiento-de-superficies","tag-fr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gdes.com\/corporate\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}