#energy #engineering #ukmfg EEW Energy Services has opened its first UK operation at Glasgow’s Port Dundas, employing 15 people. The company — set up in Singapore last year by Michael Craig — is funded largely by Germany’s EEW Group, which has a network of steel mills and manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
EEW Energy is to work alongside Belfast-based Harland & Wolff to supply steel to the Humber Gateway Substation Project — a wind farm off the Yorkshire coast — as part of a £1 million order.
Mr Craig heads the business with chief financial officer Alan Hyslop, who has been involved with the private-equity sector for around 30 years. Mr Craig said that, “after getting off to a flying start” in Singapore, the UK was considered “the next most obvious stopping point” to ‘grow’ the business. “The combination of our Singapore and Glasgow operations will bring the UK energy sector direct access to a world-wide supply chain for oil, gas extraction and renewable-energy sectors.”
The company’s biggest market sector is oil and gas, where applications for its products include traditional jacket construction for oil rigs and jack-up rigs. It also makes conductor pipes, which are used in looking for and extracting oil.
Mr Craig said that future opportunities for the firm include supplying the shale-gas sector. “If shale gas goes ahead, which I think it will at some stage, that will be great for us, because it will need pipes and distribution networks.”