Bury based international safety seal firm Roxtec is reporting a spike in UK sales after turnover grew by 20 per cent in the last 12 months.
The UK headquarters of the Swedish owned firm is releasing details of its corporate performance showing turnover has more than doubled in the last three years.
Roxtec’s UK managing director Graham O’Hare said the growth in sales is being driven by a rise in contracts across the oil and gas industries as well as off shore wind farm projects. Roxtec has a global turnover of over 90m Euros and manufactures a range of seals for cables and pipes at the point they enter a building or structure. Roxtec’s seals are then so durable that they offer protection from a wide range of hazards including fire, flooding and air loss.
Mr O’Hare said the firm is now looking to drive further growth in the windfarm sector and the North Sea oil and gas market.
He said: “Although we supply a wide range of industry sectors it is increasingly clear that we are becoming recognised as the industry standard for the offshore industries. Electrical, mechanical and instrumentation engineers recognise the need for safe and reliable cable sealing systems.”
Mr O’Hare said key projects fuelling growth over the last year include an 18 month installation of its seals to protect cables on a 858 tonne substation servicing the Arriva Ormonde wind farm being built 10km off the coast of Barrow-In-Furness in Cumbria. The firm also supplied the world’s first 1GW wind farm – the London Array project in the Thames Estuary.
Other big for Roxtec UK’s operation include providing cable transit seals to onshore processing facilities at one of the world’s biggest oil fields at Kashagan off the coast of Kazakhstan in central Asia. Roxtec further supplied cable penetration seals for the £310m Phase 3 upgrade of the UK’s most established Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Receiving Terminal on the Isle of Grain in Kent.
For further details on Roxtec’s seals Graham.OHare@uk.roxtec.com tel: 0161 761 5280 Visit: www.roxtec.com