Skilled
services With more than 90 years
of experience working with all types of tanks and industrial installations, Verwater has become a specialist in tank maintenance and construction and a trusted global contractor in industrial petrochemical installations. Experienced in project management, Verwater supports its clients in maintenance and construction works and can execute multidisciplinary projects as well as total maintenance trajectories. Known for its focus on quality, long-term experience and self-developed technology, the company today boasts large international organisations as
customers; these oil majors are served by its 600 plus employees across the globe in Verwater’s offices based in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Turkey, Singapore and the US. Looking back on how Verwater has progressed over the years, Filip de Wilde, Chief Executive Officer at Verwater, begins: “Verwater was founded by the Verwater family in 1922 and began operations performing civil works in the Rotterdam port area for oil and
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gas companies. The work involved digging for the installation of wiring or piping as well as the repair of foundations for the construction of storage tanks, for example. From there we started to develop a technique to help companies find a solution for differential settings that holding tanks were showing; we came up with a checking technique for the holding tank that has resulted in us becoming a worldwide market leader that can check large tanks. We can also go underneath the tanks with diggers and excavators for repair work or to develop a new foundation and so on. “By the 1970s Verwater was operating in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Belgium and Singapore as a provider of maintenance programmes for storage tanks. Today we are one of the leading contractors for all activities related to maintenance for storage tank installations. However, not a company to rest on our laurels, we made the decision to diversify over recent years and developed our civil works outside tank farms; this has led to us not only providing deck and mechanical maintenance, but also maintenance of piping. We decided to switch from operating as a pure contractor to a service provider as we have gained a lot of experience in advising our main clients during a maintenance programme of specific installations. Increasingly we have been more involved in the planning process of a project and become part of our customer’s team, taking into account regulation, maintenance engineering and budgeting limits.” Having made the decision to become a service provider to its customers, Verwater felt it necessary to strengthen its position in the market