Mole Plough

Mole plough installations offer a wide range of benefits, including being more cost-effective with reduced labour requirements, more efficient in its speed of deployment, with minimal community or enviromental disruption. Digs, installs and reinstates the ground in one continuous operation, ensuring fast and reliable connectivity to rural enviroments.

All our mole plough solutions can be rapidly installed next to roads, canals and rivers, across fields and even along beaches. Supplied in lengths of up to 6,000 metres (dependent on duct size), potentially reducing the amount of access chambers and splicing required in the network.

Let us help customise your microduct and tube bundle configurations for use in mole plough installations, and we can supply detailed installation instruction manuals to contractors.

Emtelle has been supporting mole plough projects in the UK for over 20 years.

MOLE PLOUGH BENEFITS

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    Minimal disruption on the landscape, preventing long-term traffic and existing utilities disruption, making it an ideal choice for rural areas with sensitive ecosystems.
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    Speed and efficiency, significantly faster to deploy than traditional trenching, in the right conditions, ducts can be installed at speeds of up to one kilometre per hour (depending on duct size and type).
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    Cost-efficient solution, reduces the need for extensive excavation and restoration work, helps lower project costs by reducing the labour requirements.

MOLE PLOUGH SOLUTIONS

  • Our range of pre-cabled sub ducts removes the need for a another team of specialists to blow in fibre cables as a separate process, significantly reducing the time and costs of network construction.
  • DBMF thickwall tube bundles provide exceptional crush resistance and durability, ensuring reliable performance in challenging installations.
  • Choose our high-capacity tube bundles for a cost-effective and sustainable way to have a pathway to upgrade for future ready networks - Emtelle OneDig™.
  • Ask for our ECO-Emtelle range of recycled microducts, sub-ducts and tube bundles, lower the impact on our environment and an ideal solution to help meet sustainable targets.
  • Several different solutions like our sub ducts, microduct bundles or pre-fibred ducts can be mole ploughed at the same time.
  • We have a wide range of mole plough solutions available - contact us for more information.

SOLUTIONS FOR Mole Plough

HDPE SUB DUCTS

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Our HDPE Sub Duct systems range from 18mm to 63mm diameter and provide a flexible duct in continuous lengths of up to 3000m.


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TUBE BUNDLES

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Our tube bundles are tight protected microducts suitable for installation of fibre units containing between 1 to 24 fibres, as well as 24-144 fibres in Minicables.


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DUCTS

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Our uPVC & PE ducting solutions are manufactured to industry standards, are available in varying sizes, and include a comprehensive range of accessories and ancillary items such as bends, connectors, spacers, access chambers and building entry accessories and seals.


DETAILS

Mole Plough Solutions Brochure

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Mole Plough Brochure 2024

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Dave Rames
Technical Field Support Engineer


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