Wärtsilä increases offering of engineering se...

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 9 February 2009, 1 pm (EET)

Wärtsilä has increased its range of engineering services available in
Italy with the opening of a brand new workshop in Taranto, an
important commercial and military hub in the Puglia region of
Southern Italy. Relocation to the new, much larger facility provides
a more suitable base from which to develop its offering in the
region.

The new workshop is equipped to perform overhauling services for
diesel and gas engines. It is implemented in full compliance with the
latest Wärtsilä workshops standards. The size of the previous
premises was found to be limiting in the type of services it could
offer its customers.

"The new 700 m2 workshop with its five tonnes lifting capacity is
ready to support a variety of customers, and is particularly oriented
towards serving bio fuel power plant installations in the Southern
and Eastern part of Italy as well as the Taranto Italian Naval Base,"
said Guido Barbazza, Director, Field Service Workshops, Wärtsilä
Services.

The new facility opened at the end of January with an experienced
12-man team capable of providing a wide range of engine components
overhauling, re-machining and honing services.

Wärtsilä in Italy is present in Trieste with engine production, parts
warehouse and service workshop. The company also has service
workshops in Genoa and Napoli and employs in total more than 1500
people. Wärtsilä has been present in Italy for more than 20 years.

Media contact:

Ms Tuula Franck
Press Manager
Wärtsilä Corporation
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Wärtsilä Corporation in brief
Wärtsilä enhances the business of its customers by providing them
with complete lifecycle power solutions. When creating better and
environmentally compatible technologies, Wärtsilä focuses on the
marine and energy markets with products and solutions as well as
services. Through innovative products and services, Wärtsilä sets out
to be the most valued business partner of all its customers. This is
achieved by the dedication of close to 19,000 professionals manning
160 locations in 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on
the Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, Finland.
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