The company said that this move was undertaken to pursue new business opportunities in Norway and to support existing clients by providing all its products and services to the whole of Scandinavia.
Bjarne Eia, former managing director of TECO Solutions, has been appointed technical sales manager, and will be the principal contact at Harris Pye Norway. The office is at Lysaker, around 15 minutes from central Oslo.
This is Harris Pye’s 17th office, with the network stretching from Brazil to Japan, North American and Canada to Australia and including major workshops in Wales, Brazil, Sharjah and Singapore.
“Thanks to his long history in coatings we have also appointed Bjarne Eia as our in-house specialist for protective coatings,” explained Chris David, the Group’s CTO. “We are eager to expand our protective coatings division in the maritime and oil and gas industries.
“We aim to be the preferred provider of high quality voyage repair and of maintenance services on board ships and rigs while at sea. Working with clients we can streamline their maintenance programme for any ship or rig in operation. We offer three alternatives for owners and managers – coating while at sea; coating at a yard; or a combination of work at yard and at sea,” he explained.
“The Division offers all kinds of steel surface refurbishment, including blasting and coating of internal and external structures and spaces; scaffolding and covering; special access systems; and passive fire insulation and thermal insulation in the maritime and oil and gas environments,” Eia said. ”I am greatly looking forward to my new role and to expanding Harris Pye’s protective coating services globally.”