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Sulzer Turbo Services
he year 2010 has been transformational for Sulzer Turbo Services with the acquisition of
Dowding & Mills, the leading independent electro-mechanical repair business. Since June 2010 the service footprint of the business has expanded greatly, this has been coupled with a doubling of the number of service engineers and technical specialists providing round the clock service, writes Sue Hudson. The key focus for the business remains
the owners and operators however the equipment range that Sulzer Turbo Services
can now service has increased to include the ‘driver’ and the ‘driven’. The markets in which Sulzer Turbo Services now operates are oil and gas, refining, petro-chemical, power generation, mining and transportation. The change has not changed the businesses vision, which remains: to be the leading independent, technically advanced and innovative service provider for land-based rotating equipment, to operators and owners, worldwide. The enlarged service business are
offerings are complementary to each other and all based around rotating equipment. Today, you can expect to see Sulzer Turbo Services engineers performing highly skilled services in a number of key oil and gas regions: Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, Houston, Venezuela, the North Sea, Rotterdam, the Middle East, Russia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Australia. The services that they are
Fig. 1. Sulzer Turbo Services inspecting a 2MW motor.
performing in these important oil and gas regions could be either upstream O&G, on the oil
and gas pipelines or within the refinery on anything from condition based maintenance inspections, routine maintenance, planned maintenance or emergency support. Being an independent service provider
on rotating equipment allows Sulzer Turbo Services to offer alternative solutions to the owner or operator; often alternatives that are not available from the OEM. Experience has shown that owners and
operators work with Sulzer Turbo Services as they:
l Prefer the technical transparency and partnership approach that is offered
l Benefit from the repair rather than replace approach to problem solving
l Appreciate the superior turnaround speed Customers have found that they can
improve their plant reliability whist reducing the cost of maintenance.. l
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Sue Hudson is with Sulzer Management Ltd, Sulzer Turbo Services, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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