VAN HECK I PROFILE

Van Heck has developed a repu - tation for excellence and innova - tion when it comes to providing the with complete water management solutions. As the company launches its latest IMEN development, the SEA TROPHY, SPEC Emma Halley talks to owner and Managing Director Jeroen Van Heck about Van Heck’s success and how this new piece of tech - nology could eliminate the risk of environmental damage from oil spills in the ocean. ALL GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

orn in 1964 as a one man operation, art technology and industry expertise in per cent of its business from around the Van Heck was started with the ambi - the fields of dredging, civil engineering and globe and continuously expanding into the Btion of providing reliable pumps and hydraulic engineering, environmental and countries that the market calls for. For services to the dredging industry. As the agricultural works and the offshore and example, one of Van Heck’s latest projects company expanded, so did the market for its maritime industries; being able to offer is currently underway in for the solutions and with the offshore industry pumps and ballast systems, siphon systems construction of the Chirag Offshore pro - boom of the 1980’s. Van Heck was primed and pipe work and fittings as a complete duction platform, preparing the barge for and ready to take on the challenges that this package, from the engineering calculations the float-over and, later in the year, the bal - difficult and specialist market would be to the manufacture and construction. lasting for the float-over. requiring. Over the years the company has As well as this, Van Heck is focused on continuously developed its pumps and solu - Global Presence investing in the new offshore wind farm proj - tions in order to provide the very best equip - The company works within its domestic ects that are beginning to take shape in the ment and services to its clients. market of North , The North Sea and its surrounding countries. Van Heck offers its customers the very and Belgium, but provides its solutions The company already has strong rela - best in specialised equipment, state of the internationally, acquiring as much as 50 tionships with some of the major players

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in the market, particularly with some of 70m3/hr at 100cS. With its ultra small Alongside this, the SEA TROPHY is also of the large dredging firms like Jan de dimensions, it has the ability to enter the answer to new, upcoming shipping Nul, Boskalis, Van Oord and DEME through the systems in a ship’s existing regulations such as the ‘Polar Code’ and Group and renowned salvors Svitzer piping, requiring very little preparation ‘Green Shipping’ policies. and SMIT. All of its engines are supplied and so avoiding the need to begin welding by the internationally recognised and cutting before pumping. The miracle World’s First Caterpillar and the company can boast of this little device is that it has the The pump is already available and in a few partnerships with some of the capacity to completely eradicate any risk weeks will begin being installed on its first largest dredging companies that date to the environment from oil spills via rental fleets. Van Heck is in the process of back to the 1960’s. its controlled and contained fast oil marketing this little gem of a device and it is And, while Van Heck lends it services to recovery system. extremely positive about its potential suc - some of the largest scale industries in the The SEA TROPHY encompasses the com - cess. The speed and ease at which the SEA world, its latest innovation has the poten - pany’s commitment to the environment, as TROPHY can be used with its small size and tial to eliminate some of the biggest and well as its client’s reputations. It is an large capacity is something that the global most damaging risks to both the economy innovation that is set to be the most maritime and offshore industry has never and the environment; all wrapped up in a invaluable tool for ship owners, salvors, seen before. tiny 150mm by 630mm package. coastguards and emergency first respon - The SEA TROPHY is already deserving of ders, as well as the oil companies and mar - its name and to be the company behind the Size Matters itime contractors whose involvement in device that saves the worlds oceans from oil The SEA TROPHY is the first and only pump any kind of environmental disaster could spills is an accolade that is well within Van of its kind in , being capable of spell a significant financial loss as well as Heck’s reach. And, as the SEA TROPHY’s own quickly and cleanly removing oil at a rate irreparable damage to its company image. slogan suggests, ‘There is a world to win’. n

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