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INdUSTRy coMMENT BoaRd
2012 – Hopefully a year to
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McLean Events, Nick Needs, Managing director
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So with 2011 well and truly behind
us, be that a good or a bad thing for
your organisation, let’s look forward
to a prosperous 2012 in every sense.
In the UK we have the Olympics
in June, followed by the European
Football Championships in the Ukraine and
Poland. That’s many people’s summer sorted
out! But in the industry it’s Automechanika
year, which always causes a bit of a buzz in the
markets, staged in Frankfurt as usual with the
organisers doing as little as they possibly can to
help lessen the burden exhibitors and visitors
face with the shortage of accommodation. Not
so much a problem, it must be said at PEI NACS,
which is in Las Vegas this year, a location where
you can book as many rooms as you like with
your own personal slot machine for as little as
US $ 50 a night! Its all off to Singapore shortly
to spend some time in the company of Emma
and Fiona, who in march are staging their Middle
East & Asian Petroforum, an event which
alternates every two years with erpec. For your
information, the dates and venue of the next
erpec have just been announced as being Nice,
Cote d’azur, 16th – 19th April, 2013.
In terms of trading performances and the
economy generally, we thought it would be
a good idea to ask a few of the more active
companies in 2011, how good or bad last year
was and for them to give us an indication of
what they might expect from the coming year.
Collectively it should be an interesting forecast
of what the industry can look forward to, for
better or worse, in 2012.
Hectronic – Robert Mazuga, director Sales EMEa
Hectronic GmbH specialises in
the development of intelligent
system solutions for the refuelling
sector. Since the foundation of
the original company Kienzle, in
1928, Hectronic has developed
into an industrial company with
operations in many countries. With close
to 200 staff, 7 sales offices and around 90
international sales partners around the globe,
Hectronic solutions are now successfully
marketed all over the world. For 2012 we
have undertaken a reorganisation of our sales
Turk ish brand MEPSAN is
celebrating it’s 20th anniversary
having been established as a
service company in 1992 producing
and supplying fuel station
equipment, automation solutions
and technical support to the
international petroleum and oil equipment
industry. MEPSAN is proud to have reached
it’s 20th anniversary and looks to the future
with confidence and belief on becoming more
powerful than ever. Celebrating 20 years of
success with it’s experience, knowledge and
capabilities, MEPSAN continues towards
structure so that we can continue to improve
the company’s global market position. This
restructuring strengthens our local sales
activities and Regional representatives can
now respond in a more targeted manner to
the requirements and needs of our clients and
business partners. Under the slogan “Smart
refuelling”, Hectronic is offering intelligent
and integrated system solutions, plus solutions
and technical upgrades in the field
of fill level gauging and high-performance
auto-fuel terminals with a wide variety of
payment options. An early highlight of this
its vision of becoming a well-known reliable
and respected Turkish brand worldwide.
MEPSAN has suceeded in becoming a
reliable solution partner, not just a supplier,
by increasing the level of technology at it’s
production plants with the new investment,
maintaining and promoting R&D’s creativity,
expanding and strengthening service teams
in foreign markets. MEPSAN have expanded
it’s operations in Turkey, by wining tenders
and appointing distributors in more than
30 countries in Europe including France,
Spain, Greece, Balkans, North Africa,
CIS Region, Middle East and the Far East.
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Istobal –
Rafael Tomás alfaro,
Managing director
“ISTOBAL is satisfied with 2011,
our growth outside Spain has been
of only 5 percent of turnover, but
in such a difficult year we are
happy. Our new range of M’NEX
rollovers has proven itself highly
successful and our R&D team has
been able to work in two full new ranges of
products that we will launch in Automechanika
2012 in Frankfurt. Internally we have gone
through a process of internal restructuring and
change of ERP that will assist us to improve
our competitiveness, giving us the chance of
higher growth in 2012 and we would lie if we
said that all that was easy, but once a difficult
task is accomplished the satisfaction is there.”
year was without doubt the unveiling of the
innovative PetroLine Service App. With the
help of this application for smart phones
and tablet PCs, petrol station owners can
now gain access to data from their stations
at any time and from any place – a market
first. Further projects lined up for 2012
give us cause for confidence and optimism.
Positive feedback from our customers and
widespread market interest in our innovative
solutions are leading us to look forward
very positively and enthusiastically to a
successful year in 2012.
Mepsan – Batuhan Kiroglu, International Sales and Marketing Manager
The customer portfolio includes all local
petroleum distribution companies (OPET,
Po, Shell, BP, TOTAL, M Oil, Kadoil ...),
International oil companies ( Gulf, Lukoil,
Socar, Petronas, Agil, OmanOil, Adnoc,
Jordan Petroleum, NOC.) as well as transportation
& logistics companies, municipalities
for public transportation and state institutions.
Besides being a reliable and creative
dispenser manufacturer, MEPSAN is fast
embracing new technologies. In this way,
MEPSAN will develop it’s understanding
and scope of automation activities and enter
new fields of operation.