Huisman has officially opened its new production facility in Navegantes, Santa Catarina state, in the south of Brazil. The facility is used for the manufacturing of offshore equipment for the Brazilian market.
It is located along the Itajai-Açu river, enabling fast installation of Huisman equipment onboard sea going vessels. The new Huisman production facility was officially opened by Mrs Cristina Pinho, Executive Manager E&P Services at Petrobras.
In 2013, Huisman started the construction of its new Brazilian facility with a first pile in March 2014. Since then, phase 1 of the construction has been finalised, including a large production hall, work preparation and welding hall and office. Building activities for the next phase (painting hall, warehouse and test pedestal), are under construction.
Brazilian Contracts
The Brazilian Huisman production facility has already been awarded contracts for the delivery of six 65 mt Lattice Boom Cranes and four 65 mt Knuckleboom Cranes for Sete Brasil and cranes and pipe storage baskets for two 340 mt Tiltable Pipelay Systems for Technip-DOF. Furthermore, a contract for four anchor handling and towing winch packages was signed with Grupo CBO early this year.
Picture: Huisman Navegantes production facility (by Huisman).
