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Universal Ice Blast Europe appoints Mourik as Ice Blast service provider
Universal Ice Blast Europe appoints Mourik Services BV as Ice Blast Service Partner. Mourik and Universal Ice Blast Europe will work together to spread availability of Ice Blast Services to the European market.
Den Burg, 1 October 2003 - Universal Ice Blast Europe (www.iceblast.nl) and Mourik Services BV (www.mourik.com/index_uk.html) have entered into a partnership to provide industrial cleaning services offering Universal Ice Blast Europe's patented technology. Mourik Services BV is an industrial contractor known for their innovative and advanced working solutions, a contractor that places the interest of the customer as their top priority. Their commitment to the new Ice Blast technology is evidenced by a sophisticated new mobile Ice Blast vehicle capable of offering a broad range of Ice Blast services to their extensive Dutch customer base. Mourik Services plans to offer its services to its customers in other European countries in the coming months.
Mourik Services is established in Botlek-Rotterdam with Dutch branches in Vlissingen, Moerdijk and Velsen-Noord. Mourik has provided a broad range of technical services for the past 40 years to the petro-chemical, steel, utilities and environmental industries. These services include; informational and realization support, maintenance for mechanical engineering, high pressure water and vacuum cleaning, catalyst handling, asbestos abatement, environmental technology and civil engineering.
"Ice Blast has been totally new for Mourik Services. For some applications Ice Blast provides potential advantages over current cleaning practices. For example, Ice Blast is Environmentally friendly, Safe and is low-cost, these are the qualities that our customers find most appealing", according to ing J.H. (Hans) Stam, Managing Director of Mourik Services B.V. "Cleaning using Ice Blast is an alternative Mourik made available to our clientele to provide even better services and well considered innovative cleaning solutions."
The newly built Ice Blast unit makes it possible to operate completely independent of local infrastructure at customers' sites. Mourik Ice Blast services in The Netherlands are available from Mouriks' main branch in Botlek-Rotterdam. Universal Ice Blast Europe and Mouriks' foreign branches will expand the Ice Blast services into several European countries outside of The Netherlands.
"The expansion of our Ice Blast technology into Europe through Mouriks' branch network will provide a viable alternative to existing cleaning methods for the industrial market. This relationship will allow Mouriks' customers to have direct access to the low-cost and minimal-waste benefits of our Ice Blast cleaning technology", says Kees Dros, Managing Director of Universal Ice Blast Europe," a Win-Win for all parties involved."
"Now that the first phase of Ice Blast services has been completed, Universal Ice Blast Europe is building a network of European Ice Blast Partners" Says Dros. Universal Ice Blast Partnerships will comprise of:
· Ice Blast Service Partners: Industrial service companies providing Industrial Cleaning and Environmental Cleaning services.
· Ice Blast Equipment Partners: Equipment manufacturers of Ice Blast equipment for production cleaning and deburring solutions.
· Ice Blast Support Partners: Support organizations providing maintenance for refrigeration, mechanical, and production or development services to Universal Ice Blast Europe and its Partners.
About Mourik Services
Mourik Services has more than 700 qualified employees and a large fleet of modern equipment. It is a division of Joh. Mourik & Co. Holding B.V., a company with 1800 employees and turnover of 250 million euro worldwide.
About Universal Ice Blast Europe
Ice Blast, a patented technology, was developed by Universal Ice Blast, Inc (NASDAQ:UIBI), in Kirkland, Washington, USA. Universal Ice Blast Europe (UIBE) represents UIBI in Europe and will manufacture, market and sell the Ice Blast equipment to the European market. UIBE services are delivered through a network of appointed Ice Blast Partners to end use-customers.
UIBE will position its Ice Blast technology into 3 primary market segments: Industrial Cleaning (cleaning of industrial machinery, infrastructures and marine applications), Production Cleaning (cleaning and deburring in manufacturing industries), and Environmental Cleaning (asbestos abatement, lead based paint removal and nuclear decontamination). UIBE will have access to a new range of products, currently under development by UIBI , that are aimed at specific applications in existing market segments.
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