SiOx Signs Sales and Distribution Agreement With Norwegian Drilling Group
An important milestone has been reached as upstart company SiOx signs global sales agreement with Norwegiean Drilling Group (NDG). NDG will promote and sell SiOx anti corrosive quartz coating in the the oil & gas and offshore industries.
Espergaerde, Denmark, September 4, 2015 (Newswire.com) - The Danish-based technology company SiOx announces the appointment of Norwegian Drilling Group (NDG) as global sales agent and distributor for its NANOmel® technology. Primary focus will be on markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
"We are very excited to partner with Norwegian Drilling Group to change the corrosion landscape," says Soeren Svanebjerg, CEO of SiOx. "NDG's considerable resources will allow us to quickly penetrate the markets for high performance corrosion protection in Europe, the Middle East and Africa."
Norwegian Drilling Group is one of the largest operations and service companies supporting the oil and shipping industry. It counts many of the major oil companies in the world as its customers.
"We are pleased to be representing SiOx and introduce its ground-breaking quartz-on-metal coating technology to our customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa," says Niels Uhrbrand, NDG, "NANOmel®, which is a flexible thin film quartz coating, with superior anticorrosive and antiscaling features, will enable us to significantly reduce our customers' maintenance costs. In the current environment of lower oil prices, maintenance savings is critical."
About SiOx
SiOx (www.siox.dk) is a technology company based in Espergaerde, Denmark. The company's product line is NANOmel®, a highly effective anticorrosive coating for metal components like heat exchangers, valves, pumps etc., utilizing quartz molecules , which assembles into fused silica, making the surface layer inert, extremely dense, tough and flexible. NANOmel® is developed in close collaboration with Alfa Laval and The Danish Technological University.
About Norwegian Drilling Group
Norwegian Drilling Group AS (NDG) (www.ndg.as) is supplying most disciplines for operations and service of drilling units - and with over 30 years combined experience, NDG is able to provide high-level senior management for most projects as well as supplying equipment including installation, commissioning and operational support.
About NANOmel®
"The NANOmel® surface technology represents tomorrow's solution for antiscale and corrosion protection, in a world where ever more sustainable and environmently sound solutions is sought. ", says Soeren Svanebjerg, CEO of SiOx, - "Quartz-on-Metal is a game-changer that enables companies to pursue new business opportunities, when new process applications can be addressed."
The innovative coating is strong and sturdy, dense and flexible. The thin-film layer even makes it bendable without cracking.
The coating provides unmatchable properties. The solution effectively protects metal substrates from corrosion while at the same time provide new, attractive and desirable surface properties like reduced surface roughness and sealing of pores in the surface. Furthermore, the thin‐film enables utilization of the mechanical and physical properties of metal substrates with the non‐corrosive and chemical inert properties of glass on the surface. Therefore, coated components withstands tough, aggressive environments where only the toughest solutions can survive.
"The coating potentially lets companies address new application areas", Soeren Svanebjerg said, "for example within the food process industry where aluminium today often is a no-go due to the tough environment with harsh cleaning agents etc. The Quartz-on-Metal coating can help process equipment suppliers to further evolve and take new market positions."
