TPI July 2011

news business & market Buy-out creates new future for iNPIPE products

Peter Fretwell, Gavin Newall, Darren Williams, Keith Appleton and Simon Bell

The company is also able to work with clients to produce tailor-made products alongside its standardised range, and bespoke manufacture accounts for approximately 25% of its business. As oil prices continue to rise, sales director Gavin Newall reflects on how this affects the company’s hopes for the near future: “Over the next two years we’d like to see the company grow to twice its current size, consolidating our position in the market place and moving the company forward into more service- orientated products.”

turnover and profits year on year, and has significant development and further recruitment planned for the next 12 months. From its headquarters in North Yorkshire, England, iNPIPE Products designs, manufactures and hires an array of ‘pigging’ pipeline maintenance and testing equipment and services. The Pig Signaller, its first patent, was developed with omni-directional properties. This is of particular importance when orientating the signaller on the pipeline because with an iNPIPE Products omni-directional trigger it is impossible to install the trigger unit incorrectly.

International Pipeline Products Ltd has been acquired as part of a management buy-out supported by private equity investor Meridian Equity. The company, which is known internationally under the brand name, iNPIPE Products™, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum from parent company Pan-Atlanta Developments Limited, to accelerate the growth of the business into new premises required for rapid expansion. iNPIPE Products, a member of energy sector business development organisation NOF Energy, has been a supplier to major operators and international contractors for over 25 years and continues to grow. The company has increased worldwide

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