GLOBAL piping solutions provider Trouvay & Cauvin is making major inroads into the Middle East, the Asia Pacific and North American markets winning new orders and increasing stock. Going forward, it plans to focus on India next year where it intends to open more branches and spread out in North Africa and Nigeria as well.
Alongside, the group’s activity in valves repair and testing is also booming and a plan to build a new Valve Automation Centre (VAC) is on its radar, too.
“We are now full speed in Asia Pacific and North America. Orders are now a reality in Iraq and just for this country the potential is huge. We have also increased our stock with specific products such as high grades and structural tubes and plates.
Our activity in valves repair and testing is also booming and we forecast to build a new VAC with better capabilities. We have started the construction of a new automatic blasting and painting facility and we do hope to complete this new investment in the first quarter 2011,” says Laurent Marie, CEO and chairman, Trouvay & Cauvin.
Founded in 1881, Trouvay & Cauvin group is the single point of contact for EPC contractors and end users for all piping solutions required by major oil and gas, infrastructure, and industrial projects all around the world. Its piping solutions, the company says, combine the best materials, a high-capacity logistics, value-added services and fairest prices.
resent in the Gulf since 1962, Trouvay & Cauvin today has nine offices in the region: four in the UAE (Jebel Ali, Dubai and Abu Dhabi), one in Doha-Qatar, four in Saudi Arabia and one in Bahrain. It also has four offices outside the ME in New Delhi, Seoul, Bangkok and Houston.
The group, which has 14 offices around the world, multiple stocks locations and supply chain management, is currently working on a new contract with Daewoo Korea for the Takreer Ruwais expansion project for an initial order reaching $40 million. “Delivery will start next month and will be completed in 2011. We will definitely receive a lot of additional items in the coming months,” says Marie.
“We have been awarded the full piping package including seamless and welded pipes and part of the scope includes the coating. Logistic and on time delivery is of the essence. Part of our project team is working exclusively on this project. This is the first time a Korean contractor has awarded such a package to a company outside Korea,” adds Marie.
The company is also in the final stages of delivery of the Abu Dhabi Crude Oil pipeline with IPIC and CPECC, the Chinese contractor. More than $60 million of piping material has been delivered on this project. “We are also starting the mega Barwa Financial district project in Doha with Bouygues Batiment International where we will deliver an impressive amount of pipes and fire fighting couplings. Part of our team is also on the new Fujeirah expansion project with Emarat Dubai and we are also full speed on the new order taken in Iraq for BP London,” adds Marie.
The company has more and more requirements for energy audit in all countries from final users. “Our service team is able to audit all the steam lines from the boilers to the process lines. We are able to deliver a complete audit with specific new technology and products,” says Marie.
For Trouvay & Cauvin, the current year has seen almost the same level of activity compared to last year though it admits 2008 was far better. “In any case 2011 will be a very good year for us as we have now reached more than $100 million of backlog orders,” says a hopeful Marie.
“This year was really unusual and we are quite diversified now and present in 14 locations,” he adds.
Commenting on the performance of the oil and gas sector in the region over the past year, Marie says that after a slow down beginning of 2009, “we are now following more than 20 different projects mainly in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Iraq.” It however, does not want to disclose the projects as yet.
