30th May 2015
OVIVO SELLS UK MUNICIPAL BUSINESS TO IN-HOUSE TEAM
Ovivo Inc. has sold its highly respected UK municipal business for an
undisclosed sum to part of the well regarded existing senior management
team led by Alex Lloyd, Ovivo’s Vice President, UK Municipal and Finance
Director, Peter Sargent.
The deal is supported by award winning corporate fi nance experts
Clearwater International and backed by asset based lending specialists
Shawbrook Business Credit. The new Company, which will focus on the
UK and Ireland wastewater sector, will trade as Jacopa, underlining and
consolidating the outstanding reputation and heritage of its leading product
range.
The agreement brings some of the UK’s best-known wastewater brands –
Copa, Jones+Attwood, Aquator, Tomkinson and MBR Technology, including
a licence for Brackett Green products under the new Jacopa umbrella.
The Jacopa product portfolio is certainly well matched to the needs of
today’s municipal water sector. Market leader Copa offers products and
technology for the municipal markets, specialising in sedimentation,
biological treatment, screening and stormwater management.
Jones+Attwood is another market leading brand, specialising in wastewater
treatment plant inlet works products and Brackett Green is a well-known
name in screening for municipal water and wastewater treatment.
MBR Technology and Aquator focus on municipal aerobic MBR biological
wastewater treatment, and Tomkinson’s specialises in clarifi cation,
sedimentation and biological wastewater treatment for the municipal market.
The new management team is led by well known and highly respected
industry fi gure Alex Lloyd, previously Vice President, OVIVO UK Municipal,
Alex now becomes Managing Director of Jacopa.
A Chartered Chemical Engineer, Alex has outstanding experience in the
industrial and municipal sector, having held a variety of key posts. In recent
years he has held high profi le posts as both Managing Director of Operations
for Severn Trent Services and Sales Director for Degremont UK. Previously he
held key technical and engineering roles with Nokia and Nalco for water and
wastewater treatment in paper mill and oil refi nery operations.
Alex says: “Jacopa is an exciting development for the UK municipal
wastewater sector and will provide a comprehensive range of market-leading
processes and products from a single well respected source, and which have
been proven over many years to deliver on exacting customer requirements.”
“The Jacopa team are dedicated to the UK and Ireland municipal wastewater
market with a clear and uncompromised focus on the sector. AMP 6
is widely acknowledged as a ‘challenging AMP’, creating an emphasis
on cost-effective solutions and fl exibility of approach to which Jacopa,
with its emphasis on tested products and technologies, upgrades and
refurbishments, and also customer focus respectively is uniquely well placed
to respond.”
“Above all, exceptional customer service is at the heart of our business and
we are committed to working in partnership with our customers to solve
their problems in a cost-effective and sustainable way. We will actively seek
to respond to changing market demands, and will have exciting news about
new products in the coming months.”
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