HGG Group _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
“ Fast forward to more recent times, we began using robotics for cutting applications. The difference between us and many other companies in the industry is that we specialize in thermal cutting. Other OEMs( original equipment manufacturers) may also manufacture a lot of other complementary machines. We don’ t do that. We are focused on 3D cutting.
“ As a company, we serve four major industries. For offshore wind and offshore oil and gas, we provide process piping and pipelines transporting liquids or gases. We are also active in shipbuilding; we have built automated profile cutting lines. Then lastly, we are also engaged in the structural steel sector. This is the area in which we’ re experiencing the biggest growth. We have recently developed a new product which will be unveiled in April and which we are expecting to build further on this growth. This broad spread across different industries provides significant benefits to us; for example, when one of the sectors is underperforming, we can lean more on the other industries.
“ As well as being an OEM, we also have a subcontracting business. We use our own machines to provide cutting services to the Netherlands, England, Germany, and the surrounding countries. This approach is very synergistic because we use our own machines; we are our own customers. It means we are able to notice things about our machines that many other OEMs don’ t notice on their equipment because they are not users. When we notice something we don’ t like about the way a machine is built, we relay this to the team and they then make adjustments accordingly. It gives us a much better understanding of the technology.”
Wiebe then goes on to reflect on the contributing factors to the company’ s impressive growth and expansion over the last few years:“ To achieve sustainable growth,
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