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Industry News
20 January 2014
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.
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
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.”
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
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
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Website:
OMS pipe measurements
Contract signed for large-
diameter two roller cold pilger mill
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
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 40th set of
cold pilger mills that the company has
supplied to Jiuli Group. Over the past 57
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
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