Friday 15th October 2004
Orders from countries within the former Soviet Republic have led to more staff for Groveley Detection.
The Dorset-based company is winning increasing levels of gas detection orders following the adoption of its own-design and manufacture aspirator range for use in countries such as Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan.
Groveley's aspirator systems are being used in those countries to monitor air intakes to buildings on oil production platforms and control buildings on onshore oil plants.
They perform particularly well in the former Soviet bloc installations because they need virtually no maintenance and can operate in diverse ambient temperature ranges from minus 40 degrees to plus 40 degrees Celsius.
Director Robert Bennet said: "Air is continuously drawn into the buildings to either cool or warm people. Our aspirators maintain the integrity of that air, preventing air that is polluted with smoke, toxic gas or flammable gas being drawn into safe areas."
Groveley has employed four new staff - sales manager Ralph Hooper, who joins from UK Fire, design manager Darren Rose, Paul Hedley on internal sales and Colin Holland, projects manager - and hopes to create more jobs in the next 12 months.
Groveley is regularly winning around four times as many special development projects for its aspirator systems as previously and business is also expanding for the products it distributes such as visual flame detector systems.
Robert said: "Steady growth and a regular high level of orders has given us a strong platform for more growth. The new staff will double our sales activity and capability to respond to specially-engineered projects.
Groveley supplies gas and fire detector systems onshore and offshore to oil and gas platforms, chemical and petrochemical plants, gas turbines and general industry.
Alongside its own-design and manufacture aspirator systems, it distributes Simrad gas detectors and Micropack visual flame detector systems.
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