Written by
Nick Blenkey
Bio-Sea skid coaching unit
With most ships now compliant with IMO’s Ballast Water Administration Conference in that they’ve now put in an accredited system, ballast water therapy system (BWTS) producers are specializing in the aftersales market – BWTS coaching, annual certification, upkeep, and system retrofits.
Consistent with this development, France’s Bio-UV Group, the producer of the Bio-Sea ballast water administration system, has lower the ribbon on a brand new 1,200 sq. meter maritime coaching, R&D, engineering, and manufacturing facility, growing the footprint of its present Lunel, France, based mostly web site to six,400 sq. meters.
The completion of the €2.2 million extension permits Bio-UV Group to each enhance manufacturing of its UV-based water therapy methods and to ship a complete vary of Bio-Sea BWTS coaching modules to ships’ crews.
“Ballast water therapy methods are technically advanced and ships’ crews’ correct coaching is crucial to make sure they’re operated and maintained safely, effectively, and stay compliant,” says Bio-Sea enterprise unit director Maxime Dedeurwaerder. “We now have a contemporary facility with a classroom and a full-scale Bio-SEA system for crew coaching.”
The primary ship’s crew to obtain Bio-Sea coaching on the new facility is scheduled to reach this summer time.
The corporate, which focuses on water disinfection by ultraviolet mild, salt electrolysis, ozone, and AOP for a myriad of commercial sectors, has moved its whole maritime division to the brand new facility.
“Transferring our whole maritime division throughout to the brand new facility will assist and strengthen our ambitions within the world maritime business, whereas the bigger floor permits the group to ramp up coaching and certification on its methods because the business strikes in the direction of a post-BWTS set up market,” stated Dedeurwaerder.
“Having began building in January 2023, the completion of the enlargement is a necessary improvement in assist of anticipated progress”, stated Laurent Emmanuel Migeon, CEO of Bio-UV Group. “Once we inaugurated our first important constructing in 2013, we had a turnover of round €6.5 million with a group of 47 staff. Since then, Bio-UV Group has continued to develop, bringing its turnover to €43.1 million in 2023, with greater than 50% of the manufacturing of disinfection and water therapy methods bought internationally. This has required us to increase our manufacturing web site in addition to extra places of work to satisfy anticipated market demand.”
For 2024, the corporate anticipates a continued strengthening of its aftersales companies, that are anticipated to contribute extra strongly to the maritime division’s margin and supply higher visibility over the approaching years.
