EKATO Seminar
For the first time V-LINE SAUDI ARABIA LTD. organized a technical seminar for Petrochemical Industry.
InterContinental Hotel, Jubail, 21.05.2011
For the first time V-LINE SAUDI ARABIA LTD. organized a technical seminar for Petrochemical Industry with topics like “Latest Mixing Technology for Petrochemical, Polymer and Chemical Processes“, for one of its partners, the EKATO GROUP, who specializes in mixing technology and manufactures agitator systems at their plant in Schopfheim, Germany.
One day technical seminar was held in Jubail and Yanbu industrial cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This was a good opportunity to bring all customers, using EKATO agitators, on one platform as well as companies who have mixing tasks, but have not experienced EKATO products. On Saturday, May 21st 2011, around 45 participants from different companies arrived at InterContinental Hotel, Jubail. V-LINE Saudi Arabia hosted a reception in honor of the participants and gave the guests a warm reception. The seminar was started by the General Manager of V-LINE SAUDI ARABIA LTD., Mr. Shahzad Haider, presenting the partnership between the V-LINE Group and EKATO Group, followed by an introduction of key speakers from EKATO, Mr. Ingo Wilhelms as Sales Manager of EKATO Group, to the participants.
Later on, Mr. Ingo Wilhelms presented an overview of EKATO GROUP companies and its manufactured products and briefly explained the agitators design and selection on customer-oriented solutions for process industries, i.e. Chemicals, Plastics and Polymers, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Flue Gas Desulfurization, Inks, Paints and Lacquers, Hydrometallurgy and Food technology.
Followed by Dr. Bernd Neinhaus, who continued with a more in-depth insight of EKATO latest Agitators systems specially designed for Polymerization and Petrochemical processes. Dr. Bernd Neinhaus also highlighted EKATO services, i.e. assembly, repair, maintenance, spare parts, training, and 24 hour service worldwide for their valued customers.
In the end, the participants had lunch at InterContinental Hotel, followed by a question & answer session, to have a discussion on Agitator’s technical issues and problems, commonly faced by the industry of Jubail and Yanbu and their optimized solutions.
On Tuesday, May 24th 2011, around 26 Participants from Western Region met at Moevenpick Hotel, Yanbu. The seminar was started by the Business Development Manager of V-LINE SAUDI ARABIA LTD., Mr. Mohammed Imran Khan, presenting the partnership between the V-LINE Group and EKATO Group and followed the same schedule.
On a final note, under the lead of Mr. Khan and his dedicated team of engineers, V-LINE SAUDI ARABIA Ltd. has again used this platform to strengthen relationships between manufacturers and end-users and has successfully presented their services to the industry of KSA and shown their commitment to add value to the customer services.
About V-LINE
The V-LINE group of companies was founded in 1979 and has its group headquarters in Sehnde near Hanover, Germany. It is one of the most important global providers of original spare parts direct from the manufacturers to industrial plants, working with more than 20,000 suppliers. The use of original parts guarantees optimal handling and the longest possible equipment service life. An e-procurement-solution V-Ware™ ensures considerably less transaction and procurement cost and guaranteed transit times and regular collective dispatches keep inventory to a minimum. In addition to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, other operations are in Japan, China, Mexico, Brazil and the USA. For additional information, please visit www.v-line.com or telephone—Saudi Arabia: +966 (3) 3407940, EMEA: +49 (5138) 7008-0, USA: +1-732-919-0190, Japan: +81 (66) 675 3001, Brazil: +55 (11) 66712958, China: +86 (10) 84920049, Mexico: +52 (2222) 536396.
