GLOBAL valve specialist Severn Glocon Group has announced the launch of Severn Ball Valves at Badentoy Park, Portlethen, near Aberdeen, to provide the oil and gas industry with isolation valves.
The new company will be located jointly with Severn Unival, the Gloucester-based group’s engineering service division, and will be led by managing director Colin Findlay, who is also managing director of Severn Unival.
Mr Findlay said: “It has long been a strategic aim of Severn Glocon Group to build a presence in the valve stock and trading market. We are confident that Severn Ball Valves will be a powerful addition to the Severn Glocon Group portfolio.”
Severn Ball Valves said there were typically more than 4,000 isolation valves on an offshore production platform, used to shut off and manage process lines.
It said the offshore oil and gas industry was a key market for it, and this made Aberdeen the natural choice for its global headquarters.
The company will initially create six jobs, and has plans to grow its workforce, but said it was too early to say how many people might eventually be employed.
It said, however, it had ambitious plans for international growth, not only in oil and gas but in other processing industries such as liquefied natural gas and power generation.
Severn Ball Valves said it was expected that the Portlethen office would employ teams of sales, support and administrative staff.