December 03, 2008

Jacquet adds West Coast service in California

Jacquet Mid Atlantic Inc a stainless and nickel alloy plate distributor and subsidiary of Jacquet Metals SA announced that it has added a West Coast service center located at Irvine in California. This will be the fourth operating location for the group in the USA and the third subsidiary for Jacquet Mid Atlantic Inc.

The facility in Irvine is an 83,000 square feet building with 3 bays and six cranes. The company has installed a large waterjet and plasma system similar to the previous facilities at Houston in Texas and Racine in Wisconsin.

Jacquet West will begin its sales effort in March 2008 and after installation of cutting equipment expects to be processing plate products by the end of 2nd Quarter.

Mr Kevin McKown a former GM at Curtis Wright of Crane Co and Mr Flowserve has been named to head this location and brings over 20 years of management experience in the oil refining, power generation and the process industries.

In addition, Jacquet Mid Atlantic opened a sales office in November 2006 at Charlotte in North Carolina and continues to grow its presence in the Southeast USA.