Couplings go Continental

UK specialist pipe coupling manufacturer Teekay Couplings Ltd has opened a German operation, Teekay Rohrkupplungen GmbH, at Ratingen near Dusseldorf. The new company will meet expanding business potential throughout central Europe in the marine, water, civil engineering, building services and industrial sectors. Some 10,000 couplings will be in stock and the new company is expecting a turnover of 100,000 couplings in its first year of operation.