Power Engineering - Wood Group rotary electrical company enhances support for Eastern Hemisphere electrical generator operators

July 24, 2003 -- Wood Group Rotary Electrical Company Ltd is expanding its generator service, repair and rewind, and coil manufacture operations, and is re-locating to a new 35,000 sq ft facility in Sheffield, United Kingdom to enhance its services for electrical generator operators in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Part of Wood Group's Gas Turbine Services business, Wood Group Rotary Electrical Company is also doubling its generator rotor lifting capacity to 60 tonnes in the new facility.

Wood Group Rotary Electrical Company Managing Director, Ian Walker, explained the move: "The generators we overhaul have typically been in the 10-60MW range. Since being acquired by Wood Group in 2002, we have experienced a significant increase in demand for services for larger generators in excess of 60MW. Expanding our workshop space and capacity will enable us to undertake contracts for electrical generators of all makes, models and sizes. Wood Group Rotary Electrical Company expects to be fully operational in its new premises by September 2003."

David Baillie, Chief Executive of Wood Group Gas Turbine Services, said: "The combined technical expertise, field experience and coil manufacturing technology of Wood Group Rotary Electrical and our US-based generator business, Industrial Repair Service, Inc, position Wood Group as a leading independent provider of electrical generator service solutions for power plant operators worldwide."

Wood Group is an international energy services company with more than $1.7bn sales, employing more than 12,000 people worldwide and operating in 34 countries. The Group has three Businesses: Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas and steam turbine-generator overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

Wood Group Gas Turbine Services is a world-wide independent provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and other high-speed rotating equipment, including pumps and compressors. The company also repairs gas turbine accessories and components for industrial and aero customers.

Wood Group Rotary Electrical Company Ltd offers a broad range of maintenance support services, both on-site and workshop-based, for large electrical generators and motors to operators in the Eastern Hemisphere power generation, oil & gas and industrial markets. Services include engineering and coil manufacturing services, repairs and rewinds, stator and rotor inspections, and scheduled and unscheduled field outage support. The company is ISO 9002 certified. Formerly called Rotary Electrical Company Ltd, the company was established in 1952 and acquired by Wood Group in October 2002.

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