TPT January 2014

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Continued expansion plans PIPE measurement specialist Optical Metrology Services (OMS) had a successful 2013. In the last three months the company completed 26 separate pipe measurement projects for customers, achieving record sales revenues in this period. five pipe measurement projects around the world. “Investing in people and equipment is also at an all-time high. We’ve recruited six new staff in the UK since the beginning of 2013 and two additional staff in our Houston office in the USA. In the UK, we will shortly be expanding our existing office and production space to cope with this growth.”

in providing measurement services and precision measurement systems to the oil and gas industry worldwide. A key focus for the company is in the dimensional measurement of oil and gas pipes or other similar structures where dimensions are critical. In the last 12 months OMS has successfully completed pipe measurement, fit-up or internal weld inspection surveys for a number of high profile customers and projects, including Subsea 7 (StatOil and Clare Ridge), Chevron (Gorgon), Saipem (Jack & St Malo; Casterone pipe laying vessel), Serimax (Chess; Shell Gannet), McDermott (Gorgon), Bredero Shaw (Wheatstone), Hyundai Heavy Industries (Barzan), Oceaneering (Llano) and Socotherm (West Boreas). Mr Davies continued, “In order for the UK economy to climb out of recession, UK businesses need to be extraordinarily good at growth. The ones who will make a difference are not those that grow at 5 per cent per year, but those that grow at rates nearer 100 per cent per year. OMS is a shining example of a successful, UK-based, high growth SME that is exporting its services to every corner of the globe. For these reasons, we are also attracting high calibre people to come and work with us, who are keen to learn and to be trained and to take on further responsibilities.” Optical Metrology Services Ltd – UK Fax: +44 8700 940014 Email: sales@omsmeasure.com Website: www.omsmeasure.com

In addition, OMS is continuing to expand in the UK and USA. Hugh Davies, director of client solutions at OMS, commented, “This last quarter has seen OMS operating at record levels and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of it slowing down. We are busier than ever and are currently working on

OMS has grown company sales revenues by at least 100 per cent per year since 2006, with around 90 per cent of annual turnover from overseas customers. The company specialises

OMS pipe measurements

Contract signed for large- diameter two roller cold pilger mill

dynamic balance for the crankshaft, feeding and turning system and servo synchronisation system. This cold pilger mill will be used for producing power station boiler tubes, oil drilling pipes and various other applications. The customer decided to favour the cold pilger mill due to the high quality of the tubes and experience of the company. This is the 40 th set of cold pilger mills that the company has supplied to Jiuli Group. Over the past 57

JIULI Group, one of the leading compa- nies for stainless tube manufacturing in Zhejiang Province, China, has placed an order with National Heavy Machinery Research Institute, which was founded in 1956 and is one of the largest comprehensive research and development enterprises in steel, aluminium and non-ferrous metals. Jiuli Group has placed a new order to supply one set of two roller LG-530 cold pilger mills with a horizontal force

years China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co has supplied more than 200 sets of cold pilger mills, which it has also exported to the USA and to Indian seamless tube plants. Among them, there have been 40 for high-speed cold pilger mills. China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co – China Email: yangbo@sino-heavymach.com Website: www.sino-heavymach.com

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