Noreq acquires Acta (Norway)

Acta has, since 1955, been a trusted supplier of offshore marine cranes, life raft and MOB davits as well as deck machinery. Acta is the only crane manufacturer in the world having CE marking on offshore cranes for wind power installations off shore. Acta are based in Odense, Denmark. The name of the new company is NoreqActa AS.

“With this acquisition, the Noreq group is not only strengthening our foothold in the lifeboat, davit and fender market, but we are also entering the industry with production of own ship- and offshore cranes. We see great synergies together with our existing product range and our clients will benefit from this strengthening of our product portfolio. We have a lot of common tasks on production, sales, service and maintenance which we will benefit from.” Says Styrk Bekkenes, Managing Director of Noreq.

By purchasing Acta we are also entering a new industry. Acta has since long been an important sub supplier to the wind power industry and they hold great competence and expertise on this subject. With the future of green energy we will continue to build and strengthen Acta’s position within this industry and we see a great potential here,” says Bekkenes.

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Source: noreq, November 11, 2010;