PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16, 2003 -- Underground Solutions Inc. announced it has opened its first international office in The Hague, Netherlands and hired Michiel Arnoldy as Vice President of Business Development/International.
Arnoldy will be responsible for establishing strategic alliances and implementing the Company's business development plans throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. Formerly Director of Sales for Chemviron Carbon, a subsidiary of US based Calgon Carbon and Asko Nobel, Arnoldy has almost 20 years of international business development experience throughout Europe, South America and Southeast Asia.
"There is a global interest in our Duraliner Structural Water Line Renewal System," stated Mark A. Smith, Underground Solutions' President/CEO. "We have been providing technical and pricing information to numerous municipalities and potential strategic partners in a number of countries and we feel that we are close to completing several international deals. The global water industry is a very close community and word of our "one of a kind" truly structural liner for pressure pipes has spread rapidly."
Duraliner is a process for pipeline renewal resulting in a "stand alone" structural lining capable of handling internal minimum operating pressures of 150 psi with a 3.2 safety factor. Duraliner conforms to NSF 61 Standards for Drinking Water Components/Health Effects.
In addition, Duraliner provides an equivalent design-life of new PVC pipelines (75 to 100 years) thus qualifying the rehabilitated pipe lines to be capitalized as new assets under the rules of GASB Statement 34.
Contact information for the new office is as follows: Underground Solutions - PO Box 672 - 2501CR The Hague, The Netherlands - Voice: +31 70 322 36662 Fax: + 31 70 322 3664 Email: [email protected]
