Newry Engineering firm, FM Environmental Ltd. has secured its second contract at an Olympic venue in a fortnight. The company, which specialises in water and wastewater treatment equipment, this week secured a lucrative contract to supply mechanical aeration equipment to the newly refurbished Olympic Canal in London. Hailed as the gateway to the Olympic Park, the canal is undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment in time for next year’s games. The forced-air aeration equipment will be flown in from FM Environmental’s Australian partner and installed in the coming weeks. Its purpose is to ensure adequate mixing and aeration of the 3-mile canal stretch that will be used to ferry thousands of spectators to and from the 2012 games.

The Olympic Canal contract comes on the heels of a recent contract to supply automatic grease removal equipment to a group of hotels in the Russian town of Sochi, the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympic games. Infact, the Company has a history of supplying Olympic venues having also kitted out the Olympic Village in Sydney with water treatment equipment for the 2000 games as well as supplying grease removal equipment for hotels in Athens for the 2004 games. These new contracts are part of an export drive by FM Environmental to open up new markets for the Company’s growing range of exportable products. In the coming months the Company will be participating on trade missions to Saudi Arabia, Kurdistan and Singapore while it is also currently negotiating distribution agreements in Qatar as the country gears up for the 2022 World Cup. The Company has also just shipped a container of over 100 Grease Guardian automatic grease removal units to a major overseas customer making the normally quiet holiday month of July one of it’s busiest in recent years.

Commenting on the Company’s recent successes, Export Director Eamon Fitzpatrick Jnr. said “We have been actively developing products and technologies that are readily exportable and through a number of partnering arrangements have been able to secure a foothold in new overseas markets. Our twin-track approach to growth comprises of a strong domestic base supporting an expanding export business and these recent contracts are evidence of the hard work and effort put in by our staff in recent months.”

Pictured in photograph:
Keith Ritchie, Tomasz Kozlowski & Pauline McCaul from FM Environmental

Visit us at the HOST Exhibition 2011 Milan, Italy from 21st – 25th October. We will have our Automatic Grease Guardian D10 model on display along with some of our other products.

We have received our updated BS8555:2003 Environmental Management System Certificate of Registration. Please note that we have achieved a higher scope this year. We are now registered for the design and maintenance of all our plant and equipment. We also have achieved recognition for the positive environmental impact of our Grease removal units.

FM & Central Solutions will do a pitch at the ‘Engineers Den; event on Wednesday next in Sligo.