Vila Nova de Gaia manufacturer of fittings for medium- and high-voltage overhead lines, substation connectors and earthing hardware (Skelt – Metalomecânica, S.A., NIF 506916375; Rua Estrada da Rainha 340, Serzedo, 4410-030 Vila Nova de Gaia; CAE 25620), part of France’s SICAME Group since February 2020. Fingrid Oyj, Finland’s transmission system operator, has awarded Skelt two framework supplies of substation busbar vibration dampers: €297,500 in May 2024 and €521,980 in June 2025 (TED 319972-2024 and 471812-2025).
Skelt’s Nordic business runs through one customer, and it is the most demanding one in the Finnish grid. Fingrid Oyj, the state-controlled transmission system operator, first awarded the Gaia company a contract for 400 kV busbar vibration dampers worth €297,500, published on 30 May 2024 (TED 319972-2024). A second award followed: €521,980 for 400 kV and 220 kV substation busbar vibration dampers, concluded on 12 June 2025 for delivery to Fingrid’s central warehouse (TED 471812-2025). Repeat awards from a TSO for the same product family are the clearest signal a hardware supplier can get that its parts have passed type approval and field use.
The company behind the contracts is a mid-sized forging and machining specialist. Founded around 1985, Skelt developed fittings for medium- and high-voltage overhead lines, substation connectors and earthing systems, becoming the leader in its home market and exporting to Europe, Africa and Latin America — its reference list includes 101,000 substation connectors for Algeria’s Sonelgaz (2015) and hardware for a 500 kV line in Brazil supplied through Quintas & Quintas (2016). In 2018 it worked with the INEGI institute in Porto to optimise its hot-forging process. On 6 February 2020 the French SICAME Group (Pompadour, Corrèze; 3,250 employees and €426 million of 2019 revenue) announced its acquisition, citing Skelt’s 2019 revenue of €4.2 million and 65 staff, and the aim of using the Portuguese plant to serve the group’s transmission-network business unit.
Fingrid is one of the Nordic buyers that publishes every award above threshold on TED, which makes Skelt one of the few Portuguese industrial suppliers whose Nordic revenue can be traced contract by contract. The two awards, worth €819,480 together, show a Portuguese forging plant winning as a component supplier inside a French group’s European sales network — a route into the Nordic grid market that does not require a local subsidiary.
June 2025 — Fingrid awards Skelt €521,980 for 400/220 kV busbar vibration dampers (TED 471812-2025, published 18 Jul 2025).
May 2024 — First Fingrid award: 400 kV busbar vibration dampers, €297,500 (TED 319972-2024).
February 2020 — SICAME Group completes the acquisition of Skelt.
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