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Industry News
Venjakob Holding GmbH, Germany, has
acquired the assets of Nutro Corporation of
Strongsville (OH), USA.
The acquisition combines Venjakob’s
worldwide resources in producing paint,
pretreatment, material handling and curing
technologies with Nutro’s US engineering
and manufacturing resources and expertise
in custom engineered liquid and powder
paint finishing systems.
“Venjakob’s purchase of Nutro presents both
companies with exciting opportunities,” says
Nutro’s president Mr Barney Klevay. “Nutro
gives Venjakob a strong engineering and
manufacturing base in the heart of the US
industrial market, while Venjakob’s product
line allows Nutro to extend into new, but
allied finishing markets,” says Mr Klevay.
Nutro provides custom engineered systems
in the automotive, ceramics, electronics
and general industrial markets, specializing
in chain-on-edge and highly automated
applications as well as UV, infrared and
induction heating and robotic technologies.
Venjakob has a global reputation for
finishing systems in the wood, tube and pipe,
automotive and plastics finishing segments.
With over 220 employees, Venjakob has
developed from an engineering company to
a worldwide system manufacturer of surface
and handling technology.
Nutro Inc currently has a staff of 40
employees and offers its products and
services worldwide.
Nutro Inc – USA
Fax: +1 440 572 5584
Email:
Website:
Venjakob GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: + 49 52 42 96 03 40
Email:
Website:
New Sikora service office
in Egypt
Sikora AG, Germany, has opened a new
service office in Cairo, Egypt, which offers
a new strategic location for the company’s
service and technical support for the
Arabian countries.
The long-term successful partnership
between Sikora AG and its Egyptian
representative Heavy Industries Services
Co (Hisco), formed the basis for the
assignment of a professional Sikora service
team onsite. The new service office, which
is based at the existing Hisco office, will
provide on-call technical service support.
Mr Harry Prunk, chairman of Sikora, says,
“Cairo represents an optimum location
for our service office. The intensive
collaboration with our representative Hisco
in Egypt during the last years has proven
successful.”
The opening of the service office follows
Sikora’s strong business performance this
year and reflects its progressing expansion.
Sikora Service Egypt – Egypt
Fax: +20 2 22672478
Email:
Website:
Sikora AG – Germany
Fax: +49 421 48900 90
Website:
Interpipe launch new anti-corrosive coating line
for oil and gas pipes
Interpipe, Ukraine has opened a new production line at its NMPP mill. The new line gives
Interpipe the capacity to produce pipes with an external anti-corrosive 3-layer coating for
both seamless and welded pipes up to 530mm for oil and gas transportation. The total
investment in the project has reached US$8.5 million.
The Dutch company Selmers Technology BV, a global supplier of pipe blasting and
coating plants and pipe logistics, supplied the new equipment.
The new line’s production capacity is 400m² per hour, which is claimed to be the
maximum line capacity for this type of pipe in the Ukraine. At the moment, the mill can
produce pipes with an anti-corrosive 3-layer coating according to standards including
DSTU 4219-2003, DIN 30670, GOST R, API 5L, and ASTM.
Aleksey Slyusarev, director of production and investments at Interpipe, said: “The issue of
quality is a top priority for pipes used in oil and gas transportation. Interpipe’s investment
in new production facilities confirms its commitment both to quality and to serving our
customers’ needs. Pipes from the new line will meet the highest requirements in terms of
reliability and lifespan.”
Interpipe – Ukraine
Fax: +380 562 389482
Website:
Venjakob acquires Nutro Corporation
 The Venjakob workforce willl unite with the Nutro Inc team, which has a staff of 40