RINA acquires leading materials technology centre CSM
Growing Italian engineering, testing, inspection, certification and ship classification group RINA has bought the major shareholding in Italy’s leading centre for innovation in materials technology, CSM. The move strengthens RINA’s expertise in specialised steel processes and products, especially for the energy sector, and in innovative waste to energy conversion technologies.
RINA CEO Ugo Salerno says, “Bringing CSM into RINA is part of our long-term growth strategy of developing and widening our specialist competence. CSM’s very highly skilled engineers and scientists bring skill sets which complement ours and will enable us to grow faster in developing countries and in the offshore energy business, two areas of major opportunity for RINA.”
CSM CEO Mauro Pontremoli says, “Joining RINA gives us the financial platform and market outreach we need to deliver our skills and knowledge globally. We already earn 45 per cent of our revenues outside Italy and there is huge demand for advanced materials knowledge in the developing world, especially in steel and metal alloys processes and products. Working with RINA we can capitalise on our knowledge base, our over 800 patents and our innovative processes such as in waste-to-energy and in pipeline development.”
CSM has a turnover of around Euro 30 million and employs around 300 people in centres across Italy. Its acquisition will boost RINA’s projected 2014 turnover to around Euro 330 million.
RINA is a multinational group that provides services for verification, certification, conformity assessment, marine classification, environmental development, product testing, supervision and qualification of suppliers, engineering consultancy and training across a broad range of industries and services. RINA operates through a network of companies dedicated to different sectors: Shipping, Energy, Infrastructure and Construction, Logistics and Transport, Environment and Quality, Agribusiness and Health, Finance and Public Institutions, Business Governance. With a turnover over 280 million euros in 2012, over 2,200 staff, and 150 offices in 53 countries around the world, the group is able to meet the needs of its clients and at the same time is recognized as authoritative participant in the main international organizations developing new regulatory standards. www.rina.org
CSM was founded in 1963 by Italy's major steel manufacturers and end-users with the mission to develop steel technologies and applications. Over time CSM widened the range of its technological interests and skills to cover new capabilities related to new materials, products and manufacturing technologies in order to become a reference research centre for steel and high tech industry both at national and European level. Today, Centro Sviluppo Materiali is a prominent enterprise among European top materials R&D centres, co-operating with Italian and international industries, universities and research agencies and playing a recognised role as a national and international reference-point for innovation on materials. www.c-s-m.it
For more information:
Susanna Gorni
Media Relations RINA Group
Ph. +39 010 5385555
Mail. susanna.gorni@rina.org
Elisabetta Amici
External Relations CSM
Ph. +39 06 5055780
Mail. E.amici@c-s-m.it
RINA CEO Ugo Salerno says, “Bringing CSM into RINA is part of our long-term growth strategy of developing and widening our specialist competence. CSM’s very highly skilled engineers and scientists bring skill sets which complement ours and will enable us to grow faster in developing countries and in the offshore energy business, two areas of major opportunity for RINA.”
CSM CEO Mauro Pontremoli says, “Joining RINA gives us the financial platform and market outreach we need to deliver our skills and knowledge globally. We already earn 45 per cent of our revenues outside Italy and there is huge demand for advanced materials knowledge in the developing world, especially in steel and metal alloys processes and products. Working with RINA we can capitalise on our knowledge base, our over 800 patents and our innovative processes such as in waste-to-energy and in pipeline development.”
CSM has a turnover of around Euro 30 million and employs around 300 people in centres across Italy. Its acquisition will boost RINA’s projected 2014 turnover to around Euro 330 million.
RINA is a multinational group that provides services for verification, certification, conformity assessment, marine classification, environmental development, product testing, supervision and qualification of suppliers, engineering consultancy and training across a broad range of industries and services. RINA operates through a network of companies dedicated to different sectors: Shipping, Energy, Infrastructure and Construction, Logistics and Transport, Environment and Quality, Agribusiness and Health, Finance and Public Institutions, Business Governance. With a turnover over 280 million euros in 2012, over 2,200 staff, and 150 offices in 53 countries around the world, the group is able to meet the needs of its clients and at the same time is recognized as authoritative participant in the main international organizations developing new regulatory standards. www.rina.org
CSM was founded in 1963 by Italy's major steel manufacturers and end-users with the mission to develop steel technologies and applications. Over time CSM widened the range of its technological interests and skills to cover new capabilities related to new materials, products and manufacturing technologies in order to become a reference research centre for steel and high tech industry both at national and European level. Today, Centro Sviluppo Materiali is a prominent enterprise among European top materials R&D centres, co-operating with Italian and international industries, universities and research agencies and playing a recognised role as a national and international reference-point for innovation on materials. www.c-s-m.it
For more information:
Susanna Gorni
Media Relations RINA Group
Ph. +39 010 5385555
Mail. susanna.gorni@rina.org
Elisabetta Amici
External Relations CSM
Ph. +39 06 5055780
Mail. E.amici@c-s-m.it
Labels: acquisition, certification, CSM, energy sector, engineering, inspection, Italy, RINA, ship classification. steel products, testing
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