ENTEC EVOTEC AS (org. no. 989761269) makes winches, booms, spooling devices and cranes for fishing, aquaculture, seismic, research and offshore vessels. It is based in Ulsteinvik on Norway’s west coast. It was founded in 2006 as Evomec and traded as Kongsberg Evotec from 2011 to 2019. In October 2026 the Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa) awarded it a NOK 16.25 million contract for oceanographic instrumentation cables for NRP D. João II (TED notice 697932-2026).
The Brønnøysund Register Centre lists ENTEC EVOTEC AS (org. no. 989761269) at Storehølvegen 9, Ulsteinvik. The company was founded on 18 April 2006 and has 98 employees and share capital of NOK 16.37 million. It was registered as Evomec AS and then renamed Evotec AS in 2011. It traded as Kongsberg Evotec AS from December 2011 to January 2019, went back to Evotec AS, and has been ENTEC EVOTEC AS since July 2022. Evotec’s website describes winches, booms, spooling devices and cranes run by its own Evotec CORE drive and control system. These are sold to wild-catch fishing, aquaculture, seismic, research and offshore-wind vessels. The company is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
The Portuguese link is a naval contract. TED contract award notice 697932-2026, published on 9 October 2026, shows the Marinha Portuguesa awarding ENTEC Evotec AS a NOK 16,250,000 contract to supply oceanographic instrumentation cables for NRP D. João II (internal reference 3026006644). The Navy used a negotiated procedure without prior publication. The stated reason was exclusive rights, which suggests the cables have to match equipment Evotec supplies or owns the rights to.
Besides the October 2026 Navy award, Evotec’s website reports that Jogeir Romestrand and Håvard Haanes have been nominated for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026 for building Entec Group and Evotec.
Portugal’s Navy is investing in ocean-science capacity, and Norway’s west-coast maritime cluster around Ulstein supplies much of the deck machinery that research vessels need. A direct award on exclusive-rights grounds usually ties the buyer to the supplier for spares, service and upgrades. That makes ENTEC Evotec a likely long-term Nordic supplier to the Portuguese Navy’s research fleet, not a one-off vendor.
Sources: TED notice 697932-2026 (notice and XML); Brønnøysund Register Centre (org. no. 989761269); evotec.no. Fetched 12 November 2026.
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