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It has been a fantastic day for the whole team celebrating our win of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade!

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.

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.

Try telling 100-year-old Gloucester business Helipebs that British manufacturing is dead and they may point you to their turnover figures – up 34 per cent to a predicted £7m.

Following the success of last year, Helipebs Controls decided to enter two teams to play in The Milestone School fundraising ‘Golf Day 2014’ which took place on Sunday 18th May at the Rodway Golf Club. The Milestone School is a community Special School in Gloucester that provides for approximately 290 children with a wide range of special educational needs.

Apart from Helipebs Controls having won a number of prestigious contracts in the Offshore Oil & Gas industry since the beginning of the year, they have also won their first ever order in China from a major subsea tree manufacturer.

In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ‘Act’), following which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘SEC’) issued rules requiring reporting companies to make disclosures concerning the use of Conflict Minerals – defined in the Act as tantalum, tin, tungsten (and the ores from which they originate) and gold. Conflict Minerals originating from the DRC region of Africa have been linked to severe human rights abuses and the raising of funds for violent and illegal purposes.