Water & Wastewater Treatment

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE GLENFIELD INVICTA MERGER WHY TWO BECOME ONE: CLARITY, SERVICE AND GROWTH Glen eld and Invicta, two of the most respected and longest-established brands in the water sector, have announced they are merging their operations from 6th January 2020. The new organisation will carry the name, Glen eld Invicta. Both Glen eld and Invicta are subsidiaries of the AVK Group, which has more than 100 production and sales companies worldwide. Paul Boyden, currently Managing Director of Glen eld, becomes Managing Director – Commercial and Andrew Izod, currently Managing Director of Invicta, becomes Managing Director – Operations. Boyden and Izod are clear on why the merger will deliver signi cant bene ts for the collective Glen eld Invicta customer base: 'We believe there are signi cant growth opportunities in the core markets serviced by Glen eld and Invicta: clean and waste water, environmental and ood defence, dams and reservoirs, hydro-power and non-utility infrastructure. In order to unlock that potential, we need a clear message that customers and prospects value and engage with. The message is that, as Glen eld Invicta we can harness our collective engineering and project delivery resources to deliver truly outstanding service for our customers. The Glen eld Invicta offer is simple: we will engineer a range of solutions for all of your valve and penstock applications and projects. This is true whether your challenge is simply product manufacture and supply, or whether you require total project delivery from inception to completion. We can also refurbish or replace any valve or penstock regardless of the original manufacturer, offering our customers unrivalled versatility in what is a very specialist eld. From our sales engineers, through to our design engineers and project delivery teams, there is a collective knowledge and experience that gives customers the con dence that we can deliver on time and to budget anywhere in the UK and Ireland. The announcement of the Glen eld Invicta merger may be news to the market, but it is the culmination of almost two years of planning, investment and reorganisation. Over that period the Glen eld and Invicta project teams have been working together , sharing skills and expertise; this 'cross-fertilisation' means we can offer a broader range of services. The merger also creates a national network of engineering facilities and project teams that enable us to deliver comprehensive services at a local level across the UK and Ireland. It is a really exciting time to be working at Glen eld Invicta, and the energy and enthusiasm generated by the merger is evident. Our mission over the coming months is to ensure customers and prospects are as excited about what the future holds as we are!' Between them, Glen eld and Invicta have almost 200 years of experience. Some of Glen eld's valves have been in service for over 150 years. Glen eld Invicta's technical library includes an archive of over 600,000 product and project drawings. The drawings are a living asset. They contributed to over 100 projects in 2019 alone. For further information please contact: Julia Nixon, Marketing Manager, AVK UK. 07519 129387 E: juni@avkuk.co.uk 16 | MARCH 2020 | WWT | www.wwtonline.co.uk

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