Electrolux Marine, a specialist provider of galley and laundry equipment for the offshore sector, has been acquired by Finland's Loipart group and now trades under the Loipart name.
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Previously, the two companies had worked together regularly, according to Kristian Vidfar, sales manager for merchant ships and offshore. Electrolux Marine's strength was in planning and implementing large marine kitchens, while Loipart's focus was on producing and installing stainless steel furnishings.
Electrolux Marine was able to supply around 80% of all galley and laundry products. The enlarged Loipart is more of a one-stop-shop. Loipart can also offer decoration materials for public spaces, including linings, railings, and furniture, from its associate company Trapiol in Finland.
Altogether Loipart has 1,500 products for offshore customers, including the world's smallest combi oven, which uses both convection and steam. The company can also offer modular galleys supplied in a finished state with all linings and penetrations. The modular system, which was developed by Electrolux Marine in the 1990s and is patented, can be implemented rapidly, so that retrofits also can be performed at sea.
The enlarged company supplies 20-30% of the offshore market, according to Vidfar. Current orders include the galley and laundry for the FPSO for BP Angola's Greater Plutonio development. It has further links with BP via orders for the Chirag I and Chirag Full Field projects in the Caspian Sea.
Elsewhere, the company is supplying galley and laundry appliances to the Shell-led Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. for the Luna A platform, part of the Sakhalin II development in the Russian Far East. Other galley and laundry deliveries in progress include the Alborz semisubmersible drilling rig under construction at the Sadra yard in Iran; the VS 4408 platform supply vessel being built at the Jinling shipyard in China, and an anchor-handling tug and supply vessel for the Estaleiro Itajai yard in Brazil.
For further information contact Kristian Vidfar, Loipart. Tel +46 322 668385, fax +46 322 637747, [email protected], www.loipart.fi
