Feature 2 | BOILER REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
Boiler maintenance specialists strengthen Middle East presence
Two global marine boiler maintenance companies have made significant investments in the UAE to support activity in the Gulf region.
Scandinavian Boiler Service (SBS), has announced the opening of a new regional headquarters and associated facilities in Dubai. The investment is designed to significantly strengthen the company’s presence in the Middle East area, not just for marine and offshore boiler work, but for land-based boilers as well. The new Dubai facility includes
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a service station and boiler repair workshop and SBS says it is now able to offer customers in the Gulf area a ‘one-stop-shop’ for boiler and burner service and repair. The new SBS Middle East regional headquarters will be headed up by managing director Michael Bressendorf and will supplement current activities in Mumbai, India. “SBS already performs many repair
and service tasks for customers in the Gulf area, and we feel that we can create further value for our customers by being present in the area on a daily basis,” comments Allan Bech, group managing director at SBS. SBS’ new premises in Dubai are
located in the Al Quoz Industrial Area and will offer a full range of SBS services. These include a burner service department, spare parts sales, a boiler repair workshop and a base for repair flying squads. As well as repairs the workshop will be able to carry out upgrades and conversions and provide repair materials and spare parts and emission monitoring technology for marine and offshore installations According to Mr Bech: “The boiler
repair workshop combined with locally based and highly trained service engineers and boiler makers will ensure
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ne of the market leaders in the field of marine boiler maintenance and repair,
One of the projects that Harris Pye has recently carried out in the Middle East involved the conversion of boilers on FPSO Vitoria for Saipem.
that we are able to offer customers the same high quality and service in the Gulf area as in the rest of the world.” The SBS Group provides a global
boiler service, meeting repair and conversion requirements, for marine and offshore boilers. Services range from emergency repairs to planned upgrades, refurbishment and conversions of all parts of a boiler installation. SBS can service most makes of steam boilers and thermal fluid heating systems together with their combustion and automation systems. In-house manufacturing of both boiler components and precision parts for burners. as well as good relations with suppliers, allows SBS to meet a wide range of service and repair requests, the company states. The SBS Group carries out several hundred boiler repairs every year and
projects highlighted by the company include: a complete retubing of a two-drum 45T/h Mitsubishi and a 60T/h Kawasaki boiler, retubing and new tube plates for both the oil-fired and exhaust-gas part of a 1.5T/h Gardelius combined boiler, installation of a new 1T/h Clayton steam generator, and the retubing of AQ 16 composite and AQ9 oil-fired boilers. Also stepping up its presence in the
Middle East is Harris Pye. The company has recently moved into a purpose built factory/workshop unit in Sharjah in the UAE, which is designed specifically as a boiler workshop facility. According to Mark Prendegast , managing director: “This is a much larger and user-friendly workshop than the group previously had in Dubai and gives us the capability to manufacture complete
Shiprepair and Conversion Technology 3rd Quarter 2010
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