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News Release from: Peter Brotherhood
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Team on 05 September 2005
New contracts for Peter Brotherhood
Peter Brotherhood has fought off strong competition to gain a number of new contracts and is set to achieve one of its best years to date.
Peter Brotherhood has fought off strong competition to gain a number of new contracts and is set to achieve one of its best years to date The company's fortunes have steadily improved over the past few years with repeat business from Single Buoy Moorings, Bergesen, Nynas Refining and Sasol, as well as securing new orders from companies like Saipem, a subsidiary company of ENI in Italy and Urumqi, a refinery in China
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over the past couple of years Peter Brotherhood has seen an increase in the number of contracts placed for FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) vessels, refineries and for marine waste heat recovery applications.
Peter Brotherhood's extensive experience in these fields has been a contributing factor to the securing of so many new contracts.
The company also has a number of contracts already in place for the next three years.
Due to the continually growing order book the company has embarked on a major recruitment campaign.
In the past two years, Peter Brotherhood has increased its workforce by over 15% and now employs 270 people.
The company has also set up an apprentice scheme and has trained 18 people as part of the campaign.
This year the company has taken on eight apprentices who will begin their training in the very near future.
"Since the management buyout in March 2003 the fortunes of Peter Brotherhood have been on the up", said Stephen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of Peter Brotherhood .
"The success of the company is largely down to the people it employs and the skills and knowledge they bring to the company".
"We have come a long way in the past two years and I am extremely proud of what we have achieved", he continued.
"We have increased our market share in our core businesses against tough competition and shown that engineering in the UK is still alive and kicking".
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