Grant of Share Options

RNS Number : 3851L

Pressure Technologies PLC

09 August 2013

 

9 August 2013

Pressure Technologies plc

("Pressure Technologies", the "Group" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

On 9 August 2013, the Board of Pressure Technologies agreed to grant options over a total of 153,000 ordinary shares in the Company under the rules of the Pressure Technologies plc Performance Share Plan - Enterprise Management Incentive Plan to certain members of the Company's senior management. The options are exercisable at a price of 242.5 pence per ordinary share (being the closing mid-market price on 8 August 2013), and are exercisable after three years in accordance with the rules of the Performance Share Plan.

Of these options, 53,000 were granted to James Lister, Finance Director.

For further information, please contact:

Pressure Technologies plc John Hayward, Chief Executive James Lister, Group Finance Director	Tel:  [phone] www.pressuretechnologies.co.uk
Tavistock Communications Catriona Valentine / Keeley Clarke	Tel:  [phone] www.tavistock.co.uk
Charles Stanley Securities (Nomad and Broker) Philip Davies / Carl Holmes	Tel: [phone]

Company description

Pressure Technologies is an AIM listed, leading designer and manufacturer of speciality engineering solutions for high pressure systems serving large global markets. The Group is organised into three divisions: Cylinders, Engineered Products and Alternative Energy.

Cylinders

Chesterfield Special Cylinders is a global market leader in the design and manufacture of speciality high pressure, seamless steel gas cylinders for the offshore oil and gas, defence, industrial gases and alternative energy markets and retesting and refurbishment services.

The company has unparalleled industry knowledge, gathered over the last 100 years' trading. As a trusted supplier with unrivalled expertise, Chesterfield Special Cylinders plays an integral role in the project design and engineering process, working closely with its customers on design solutions for high pressure systems.

The core activity of Chesterfield Special Cylinders is the design and manufacture of Air Pressure Vessel systems for oil rig motion compensation systems and deepwater offshore platforms. This is closely followed in importance by activity in the naval market. Chesterfield Special Cylinders provides cylinders for a wide range of applications in submarines and surface ships to a significant proportion of the world's navies.

The company's product and process knowledge has led, in recent years, to an expansion from manufacturing into value added services, making full use of expertise in the business. Chesterfield Special Cylinders has developed a number of service offerings for the inspection and revalidation of cylinders including a novel "in-situ" testing service, which is driven by a new BSI standards for the inspection of hard to reach/impossible to move gas tubes.  Chesterfield Special Cylinders is the only company capable of delivering this strict new testing regime worldwide.

More information is available on the company's website www.chesterfieldcylinders.co.uk.

Engineered Products:

This division comprises Al-Met Limited ("Al-Met") and the Hydratron group of companies ("Hydratron").

Al-Met is a niche manufacturer of specialised, precision engineered valve wear parts used in the oil and gas industries, acquired by Pressure Technologies plc in 2010. Its products are used in high-pressure choke and flow control valves, designed to regulate flow volumes in extremely demanding applications in the subsea and surface oil and gas industries. The business, established in 1985, has developed a market leading capability in precision machining carbides, high grade stainless steels and super alloys. More information is available on the company's website www.almet.co.uk.

Hydratron designs, manufactures and sells a range of air operated high pressure hydraulic pumps, gas boosters, power packs, hydraulic control panels and test rigs. The business, which was also acquired in 2010, operates out of two locations situated in the UK and USA. Hydratron also has an extensive network of distributors in key locations around the world. Formed in 1981, Hydratron has established itself as a leading supplier of quality high pressure equipment to the oil and gas industries. The full range of Hydratron products may be viewed at www.hydratron.co.uk.

Alternative Energy: 

Chesterfield BioGas Limited was founded in November 2008, following the signing of a co-operation agreement with Greenlane® Biogas Limited, the world leader in biogas upgrading, which gives Pressure Technologies exclusive rights to market and manufacture Greenlane® equipment in the UK and Eire.

Chesterfield BioGas provides turnkey solutions for the cleaning, storage and dispensing of biomethane for injection into the gas grid or use as a vehicle fuel. In 2010, Chesterfield BioGas installed the UK's first biogas upgrader supplying biomethane to the national grid at a Thames Water site in Didcot.  A second upgrader was delivered in October 2012.

For more information visit the company's website www.chesterfieldbiogas.co.uk.

 

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