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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group acquires Maintenance Partners NV of Belgium |
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 |
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 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and the shareholders of Maintenance
Partners NV (MP) of Belgium
have reached an agreement under which Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, Ltd.
(MPSE), a subsidiary company of MHI, headquartered in London, U.K.,
acquires 100 % of the shares in Maintenance Partners NV.
Through this acquisition, MHI/MPSE will add an
additional feature of power generation services, providing the full-scope
engineering and repair capabilities. The new state-of-the-art combustion
turbine repair centre will be constructed in the Middle East region providing
the latest in technology for D/E and F class combustion turbines, and available
even for G class in near future. "By teaming up with MHI, we will be able
to offer our customers top quality rotating machines and top quality
maintenance, repair, revision and spare parts," said Johan De Coster, CEO,
and Wim Schelfaut, COO of MP.
According to the company’s
press release, as a group company of MHI, Maintenance Partners - under its own
name - will continue and expand its activities. The synergies between the two
enterprises will offer current and new customers in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa ("EMENA") an unsurpassed high
level of quality and reliability in the field of duty and heavy-duty rotating
machines.
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