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The annual contest selects just one winner from over 400 suppliers based on quality, on time delivery and customer service. This year DMR seals were selected for outstanding performance in all areas. Andy Woodward, Technical Buyer for Helipebs Controls said “DMR have been a pleasure to deal with. They provide us with what we need, when we need it and if there is an issue, they are the first to put their hands up and work with us to get us the right solution quickly.”

This caps a fantastic year for Helipebs Controls which is a former winner of the “Cotswold Life Family Business of the Year” and had been shortlisted for a number of awards over 2015.

Helipebs Controls were delighted to be exhibiting at the WEAF annual conference.

To continue building on existing relationships and making new friends in China a second visit was made by Helipebs representative Mark Confaloni and Qing Lin (Join in China), this time based around the Jiangsu, Wuxi and Shanghai Provinces.

There was plenty to smile about at the Helipebs Group recent AGM which announced record sales and profits for the year ending 31^st March 2014. Group Chairman, Ross Cole, was pleased to announce sales of £5.234 million, up 26% on the previous year. Profits also exceeded targets. In his report he says “Helipebs Controls has had an exceedingly busy year in all areas of the business.

Following on from a two week period of work experience in 2014, Poppy Woodward has now joined Helipebs Controls as a fully-fledged apprentice; she will be on an advanced mechanical apprenticeship.The first 10 months of her training are taking place at Gloucester Engineering Training (GET) and for the final 3 years she will be on site at Helipebs Controls and continually assessed by GET.

Helipebs Controls was recently pleased to host a visit from the Jiangsu Jinshi Machinery Group (JMP) which had been arranged by the local ‘Join in China’.

Helipebs is pleased once again to confirm that they will be exhibiting at Offshore Europe 2015. The show, which returns to Aberdeen every other year, this time, will be between 8^th and 11^th September.

​Continuing its push into the China markets, Helipebs representative Mark Confaloni and Qing Lin recently attended the CIPPE (China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Equipment) exhibition in Beijing. Helipebs are working closely with Qing Lin (Head of China Desk) from “Join in China” (a B2B company set up to assist UK businesses to establish themselves in China). Mark says “working with Join in China has enabled us to really push forward with our plans in further establishing ourselves. Qing is a great support to us”.

Helipebs was once again exhibiting at OSEA in Singapore last month. Taking a larger stand than in 2012, the show was even more popular than previous with attendees from all around the world.

Mark Confaloni, Sales Office Manager, said “it gave us the opportunity to catch up with both existing customers as well as new potential ones. Sometimes we were so busy that we had a queue of people wanting to speak with us. It made even taking a coffee break or stopping for lunch quite difficult at times. It is true to say that we didn’t get the chance to have a proper look at the exhibition ourselves.”

Harry Anderton commented that “many new leads were collected and these will be followed up in coming weeks. I will be visiting the area again in March to hold meetings with potential distributors and meet up with people we missed at the show. We believe the show to be so successful that we have already registered our interest in booking a stand for OSEA 2016”.

The show attracted more than 18,400 visitors from 65 countries/regions to source new products and technologies with many establishing new contacts and business relationships. There were more than 1,500 exhibitors from 49 countries/regions including 19 international group pavilions all representing an impressive showcase of products. The OSEA international conference, running alongside the exhibition, recorded an unprecedented increase growth of over 30% in attendees showing that the event is the preferred knowledge exchange platform in the region.