Thirteen of Today's Most Powerful Forces in Offshore Technology to Exhibit at OTC 2013

Each spring, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) presents a unique opportunity for companies from Sweden to showcase their products, technologies and services to journalists and the world’s leading experts and decision-makers in the offshore energy and petroleum industry.   Business Sweden, who has been organizing the collective appearance of Swedish companies for the past 40 years, is thrilled to once again demonstrate the Nordic Region’s impressive breadth and depth at OTC 2013. From May 6-9 at the Reliant Center in Houston, thirteen Swedish drilling, exploration, production, and environmental production companies will occupy Swedish Pavilion Booth #2707 at OTC 2013.    

“OTC is one of the industry’s leading conferences, and Sweden is proud to be an integral part of such a widely respected event,” notes Tomas Norling, Market Unit Manager for Business Sweden in the U.S.

The organizations from Sweden participating in OTC this year include: 

Apply Emtunga AB
Apply Emtunga AB is the world-leading supplier of advanced steel modular facilities to the Oil & Gas industry. We have developed the modular section concept in an innovative way and introduced it in several industrial segments.

Automatic Power Inc
Automatic Power / Pharos Marine are the world's leading manufacturer of Navigational Aids Systems. Products include LED Marine & Aviation Obstruction Lights, Foghorns, AIS, RA- CONS, SMART Buoys & Solar Power Systems for a single light or an entire platform.

Bassoe Technology
Bassoe Technology currently staff 45 engineers with long experience in offshore engineering and consultancy. Both the management team and the majority of the employees have extensive experience in designing mobile offshore units for production, drilling, service, and accommodation.

Bodycote HIP
Bodycote HIP is the international leader in thermal processing focused on servicing the specific needs of a diverse client base, from the regional demands of the automotive and general industrial markets to the global network essential to meeting the needs of its aerospace, defense and energy customers.

Bosch Rexroth
Bosch Rexroth is one of the world’s leading specialists in the field of drive and control technologies. Under the Rexroth brand name, the company supplies more than 500,000 customers with tailored solutions for driving, controlling, and moving. Bosch Rexroth is a partner for Mobile Applications, Machinery Applications and Engineering, Factory Automation and Renewable Energies. 

Gunnebo Industries
Gunnebo Industries provides products and solutions for customers in the industrial sector that enables them to operate in the lifting, fastening-and transportation industry, at the highest level of safety and efficiency.

MCT Brattberg
MCT Brattberg endeavourers to protect people and property through the design, development and manufacture of high-performance cable and pipe transits. These are used in high-risk maritime, offshore and land-based environments to minimize danger by preventing the spread of fire, water, gas, chemicals and other hazards substances.

Moorlink AB
Moorlink is a leading supplier of tailor made mooring connectors and components for all types of mooring lines to all types of water depths and vessel designs.

Ovako
Ovako manufactures and markets steel tubes and rings. The company’s products include hot rolled and cold worked tubes, tube components, and rolled and forged rings. It caters to vehicle and general engineering industries.

Ramnäs Bruk AB
Ramnäs Bruk provides offshore safety through top quality anchor chains for demanding mooring systems to customers in the offshore industry.

Sandvik Materials Technology
Sandvik Materials Technology is a world-leading developer and manufacturer of products in advanced stainless steels and special alloys for the most demanding environments, as well as products and systems for industrial heating.

Sandvik Powdermet
Sandvik is a world leading developer and producer of advanced alloys and ceramic materials, serving a broad range of industries with innovative products and system solutions.  Sandvik is also a producer of tubular and bar products, hiped powder metallurgy products, slicklines and welding products in engineered materials. This includes an extensive program of duplex, superduplex, hyperduplex and other advanced materials, which are extremely re- sistant to corrosion caused by salt and aggressive chemicals otherwise threatening oil and gas operations. Worldwide business activities are conducted through representation in more than 130 countries.

SKF
SKF Group is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems and services that include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training.

The Swedish Pavilion is organized by Business Sweden (http://www.business-sweden.se/en), which was founded on January 1, 2013 by a merger of the Swedish Trade Council with Invest Sweden.

Conference attendees will be able to check out Sweden’s wares on the exhibition floor between 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 6 through Wednesday, May 8.  Exhibition hours will be shorter on Thursday, May 9, running from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Tomas Norling, Market Unit Manager for Business Sweden in the U.S., adds, “The 13 Swedish companies at OTC represent the leading edge in offshore technology. We are excited to help these companies present and to learn from the other leaders at this great conference.”

For more information on the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference, visit http://www.otcnet.org.

To schedule an appointment to visit the Swedish Pavilion and to arrange interviews with particular companies and executives, please contact Jeannine Jacobi of Fresh PR at (310) 857-6994 or [email protected].