17.05.2004

This is to confirm that the undersigned representative of the Norwegian engineering and trading company PERMARINE AS has been doing business with said Estonian firm of APL Production AS for appr. 6-7 years.

The orders they have manufactured for us consist amongst other of:

• several components for the subsea installations of the Norwegian oil industry;
• hydraulically operated supports for a floating dock (maritime industry);
• dam gate for hydropower station;
• crushing machine for sea weed (to extract special plant ingredients);
• stainless steel tanks, cutters, hoppers, etc. for the seafood industry (especially caviar production, based on the capelin species);
• hydraulically operated filtration units and skids for the oil industry, pressure vessels, pump shits and manifolds, all in stainless steel;
• propeller wells (for ship newbuilding);
• steel frame(s) for the aluminium industry.

The above components involve machining to very strict tolerances, sometimes sophisticated surface protection (painting, galvanizing) and/or stainless steel with pickling/passivation/polishing.

The co-operation with APL Production AS has always been pleasure, since they have a real high quality level, an extremely high standard of finish and keep their delivery times quite well also.

We can therefore recommend APL Production AS as a company of very high standing, which will do your job correctly and according to the contract.