Ashtead Technology Creates Role to Push Renewables Drive
contractor Ashtead Technology has created a new role to head up its increasing activities in renewable energy.For this Ashtead Technology appointed Scott Stephen to oversee and enhance its service offering to support the global renewables market.Based at Ashtead’s recently opened Thainstone technology center in Aberdeenshire, UK, Stephen has been promoted to the role after four years with the company recently as an asset integrity business development manager and formerly as NDT sales manager.Ashtead, which has traditionally provided its subsea equipment and O&M and decommissioning services
Technip Recertified to Gender Equality Standards
Technip entities in Brazil, France and Italy have been recertified to the EDGE (Economic Dividends for Gender Equality) global standard for gender equality in the workplace, including the group’s headquarters and the Innovation and Technology center both located in Paris, as well as Technip’s manufacturing plants in Le Trait, France, and Vitoria, Brazil. With Australia, Malaysia, the U.K., United Arab Emirates and the U.S. certified last year, Technip counts eight countries EDGE Certified and remains the first and only company in the energy industry to achieve this certification. ED
Lincoln Electric Invests in Welding Tech Center
Press release - The Lincoln Electric Company, a subsidiary of Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc., announced it is investing approximately $30 million in a new Welding Technology Center on its Euclid, Ohio campus. The Center will focus on the training of welding educators and industry leaders to address the rising demand for welding education and career pathways in welding and advanced manufacturing. Lincoln Electric will also dedicate resources to support welding training for veterans at this facility. Construction is expected to begin in early 2016 with an opening anticipated in 2017 -
San Diego Launches Blue Tech Vision
economies in America. Today, the San Diego City Council, under the leadership of Council President Sherri Lightner and the County Board of Supervisors both unanimously approved a joint resolution which promotes San Diego’s growing blue tech economy “as a leading global maritime technology center.” Council President Lightner said, “San Diego has an opportunity to establish a blue tech center of excellence due to our unique confluence of ocean resources, research, industry, military, climate, an educated workforce and an international border. With the City
CTruk Sets Plans for Expansion
More than 120 new jobs in the cards if Advanced Composite Technology Center project receives grant funding support CTruk signed the lease on a 6,400m² site on the Colne Estuary, a few miles upriver from its current Brightlingsea base. The company plans to use the Fieldgates site in Haven Road, The Hythe, East Colchester to build the larger vessels required for offshore wind farm projects further out to sea. CTruk is pressing on with refurbishment of the existing building on Fieldgates to move some production activity over early next year. However, the company has further plans to build a
New DNV GL Regional Manager in S. America
Alex Imperial has taken over as DNV GL Oil & Gas’s regional manager for South America just as the company is creating a dedicated research unit in Brazil. Imperial recently left Singapore, where he was Director for DNV GL’s Deepwater Technology Center, to take over DNV GL’s Oil & Gas Division in South America. Experience from his last position will benefit his new role as the new dedicated Research unit means that research will be one of the DNV GL’s focus areas in Brazil. “With the vast pre-salt offshore developments ongoing and planned in Brazil, and other
Brown Appointed COO at Lloyd’s Register
and diversified area for us and having two regions with two very competent managers gives us more focused management capability and sharpens our focus both on our client relationships and service delivery." New COO Brown said, "We move into our new Marine headquarters at the LR Global Technology Center in Southampton as the commercial pressures and technical challenges continue to mount in our industry. I will be focused on connecting current and future client needs with service innovation and operational excellence to provide the support that our clients and stakeholders need. Class continues
Alfultis Appointed President of SUNY Maritime
of the UConn’s marine and maritime campus at Avery Point since 2010, Alfultis oversees a complex enterprise comprised of undergraduate and graduate programs, offered by four schools within the University of Connecticut: the Department of Marine Sciences and associated Marine Sciences and Technology Center; Connecticut Sea Grant, the Northeast Underwater Research Technology and Education Center; the UConn Technology Incubator Program; and Project Oceanology, a marine education and outreach nonprofit. Alfultis’ appointment today concludes a six-month, nationwide search for a new Maritime
