During a two-month period 70 to 80 employees in BIS Production Partner and their working partners have been participating in courses and have been certified for flange-work.
Maintenance review is our new product for small- and medium size companies. The methodology is based on BIS PP’s «Best Practices» and visualize areas for development of the maintenance function in the customer’s organization.
It is now 10 years since personnel from ”Plastverkstedet” (the plastic-shop) were in Qatar first time. That was a job for Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO). 10 years ago ”Plastverkstedet” was part of Hydro’s operations. Today the shop operates under BIS Production Partner Verkstedproduksjon in Porsgrunn. Personnel still travels to Quatar for consulting, utilizing their plastic materials competency.
Neste Oil Corporation in Porvoo in Finland has scheduled three weeks stop of production in April for a turnaround. 3000 personnel participate in the project; 100 from BIS Production Partner. This turnaround is among the largest in Scandinavia, and we have not previously participated in a turnaround of this magnitude, states Turnaround Manager Dag Tore Johnsen.
On January 1st. 2010, BIS Production Partner, Sweden West, took over the maintenance at Eka Chemicals AB in Bohus. The contract has a five-year duration.
BIS Production Partner Norge has signed an agreement with Qatar Vinyl Company (QVC) consisting of consultancy and other services within maintenance, rotating machinery, fireproofing and deliveries from the plastics workshop.
BIS Production Partners’ Maintenance Consultancy department prepares the maintenance programme for the world’s largest aluminium plant, which is being built in Qatar. The programme should be ready when the plant is commissioned at the beginning of next year.
BIS Production Partner AB has together with the Petrochemical Company BOREALIS in Stenungsund signed a long-term partnership contract which covers all production related maintenance work, preparation of maintenance work and preventive maintenance on the Borealis cracker plant, as well as polyethylene plants.
“ We wanted to create a more user friendly and exciting website. So far we feel that we have succeeded. Now we just hope the users will feel the same”, Dag Strømme, Marketing director at BIS Production Partner.
This was, in short, the message Thomas Töpfer, CEO BIS and Morten Mathisen, chairman of the board of BIS Production Partner Sweden, gave to the maintenance personnel in Stenungsund.