Tyco: How Tyco helps the oil majors

Source: Manufacturing Digital

Date :06/12/2007 09:17:45

Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions supplies global systems using techniques ranging from the original pneumatic systems to state-of-the-art telemetry and control technology.

Written by John O'Hanlon and Produced by Ben Weaver

Tyco International, a former $45 billion conglomerate quoted on the New York Stock Exchange, went through a major restructuring in 2006, spinning off its healthcare division, now called Covidien, and its electronics arm Tyco Electronics. The new Tyco International describes itself as a multi-industry company with market leading businesses in electronic security, fire, safety services and products, valves and controls and related industrial products.

It is still a very large group, though now more focused, with annual revenues of $18.6 billion and 150,000 employees globally. It consists of five major divisions: ADT Worldwide, Fire Protection Services, Safety Products, Electrical & Metal Products and Flow Control.

Within ADT Worldwide sits Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions (TFIS) Oil & Gas group, which has its head office in Manchester with sites across the UK including Aberdeen, Nottingham and Norwich, as well as a growing presence in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi) and the Caspian Region (Baku, Azerbaijan & Atyrau, Kazakhstan).

Aberdeen is the centre of the Oil & Gas group’s service provision: manufacturing is the province of the Nottingham and Norwich sites, which employs over 120 people (including a number of commissioning and maintenance technicians on location at customers’ sites).

The group operated for many years under the Wormald name, which Tyco acquired in 1990 and now survives as one of Tyco’s brands, says Business Development Director Richard Miller. He has been at Norwich, the manufacturing location for its Oil & Gas Production and Control Systems, for its entire life as a Tyco unit and has seen its…

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