TPI July 2012

business & market news

Norma acquires connector systems supplier

this provider of specialised joining technology for medical engineering Norma Group will get better access to customers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. We will make use of the expertise of Connectors to extend our product portfolio and will improve our global leadership in joining technology even further.”

connector elements that meet the highest purity standards for medical sterile technology. The product range includes clamps, valves, tubes and joining solutions for the transport of fluids and gases in medical applications. The company also offers consultancy and planning services for pharmaceutical process plants.

Norma Group AG has acquired Connectors Verbindungstechnik AG, effective 19 April 2012. The parties agreed to maintain confidentiality on the details of the transaction. Connectors, based in Tagelswangen, Switzerland, specialises in connector systems for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Norma Group AG – Germany info@normagroup.com www.normagroup.com

Werner Deggim, CEO of Norma Group, commented, “With the acquisition of

For more than 25 years the company has been manufacturing and distributing

Spotlight on new technology ClampOn has been named as recipient of a Spotlight on New Technology Award by the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), for its development of the Subsea Corrosion-Erosion Monitor (CEM). The award showcases technological developments and products that are leading the oil and gas industry into the future. ClampOn’s Subsea Corrosion-Erosion Monitor has been designed to operate in water depths down to 3,000m, and the product’s development has been supported by BP and Innovation Norway. The Subsea CEM measures changes in wall thickness over entire sections of pipe up to two metres in length. So far, the system has been delivered to BP and Total.

ten years ago, and this technology has now been adapted for subsea use. The award represents an important step forward for ClampOn, which until now has been best known for its topside and subsea sand monitors, PIG detectors and leak monitors.

ClampOn AS – Norway mail@clampon.com www.clampon.com

Corrosion and erosion represents a huge challenge to operators, and subsea operators in particular.

ClampOn began developing a topside version of the technology

ISCO opens Western Australia facility ISCO Industries, a US-based pipe supplier and custom manufacturer of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) piping products, has opened a new facility near Perth in Western Australia. This is the company’s second facility in Australia, with the first being located near Brisbane, Queensland.

offers custom HDPE fabrication to provide piping solutions for multiple applications, such as mining, industrial, municipal, power, environmental, geothermal, golf, culvert-lining and landfill, throughout the United States and internationally.

Perth area was seriously considered as a location due to the amount of polyethylene piping systems being welded in Western Australia,” said Trace Temcoff, ISCO’s Australia operations sales manager. “Later that year, however, we decided to open a facility in Brisbane, Queensland. With the continued growth potential that exists in Western Australia, as well as the challenge faced to properly service the market from across the continent, it became obvious we needed to better support our customers with current and future projects in this area.” ISCO Industries, a customised piping solutions provider headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, stocks and sells a wide variety of piping materials, and

The company also rents, services and sells McElroy fusion equipment.

The new facility will support ISCO’s McElroy fusion machine sales and service offerings for Western Australia customers, offering McElroy fusion machines for sale and hire. One of the main industries served from this facility will be Western Australian mining operations.

The company has more than 25 facilities in North America, inventorying large stockpiles of pipe, including HDPE pipe, usually within a one-day delivery of most projects.

ISCO – USA trace.temcoff@isco-pipe.com www.isco-pipe.com

“When ISCO first decided to set up operations within Australia in 2007, the

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