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LAMOR SIGNS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH ITS RUSSIAN PARTNER TO START PRODUCTION OF OIL SPILL RESPONSE EQUIPMENT IN RUSSIA

Porvoo, Finland – May 22, 2009 – Lamor Corporation, a world leader in oil spill response with its headquarters in Finland, will start manufacturing oil spill response equipment in Russia, together with its long-time Russian partner Ecoshelf-Baltic Ltd. Ecoshelf-Baltic is a well known, certified salvage and rescue organization specializing in oil spill response. The company also supplies oil recovery equipment to companies involved in extraction and transportation of oil.

• Lamor oil spill response equipment has been used in the Siberian oil fields for many years. This ongoing utilization has proven to be excellent for testing and developing our products to become state-of-the-art world leaders within oil spill response technology, says Nikolai Kildishov, Vice President of Lamor Group.
• Now is the right time to take our equipment and return with it back to its roots in Russia, where it was originally developed, continues Kildishov, and points out that Ecoshelf-Baltic has already manufactured high-quality special parts for Lamor during several years.
• We have been very pleased with quality of the products manufactured by Ecoshelf-Baltic as well as with the overall performance of the company, making this decision an easy one, adds Kildishov.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Lamor Corporation and Ecoshelf-Baltic was signed April 16, 2009. A full-scale manufacturing plan will be completed this summer. The production will comprise of Lamor’s wide product range, including oil spill response equipment, such as skimmers, power packs, pumps etc., as well as work boats.

The production facilities are located in St. Petersburg, only approximately 300 km from Lamor’s headquarters in Finland, where the production and logistics centre is located, within easy reach of Lamor’s technology venture team, including design engineers and quality controllers.

For additional information, please contact:

Mr. Nikolai Kildishov, Vice President Lamor Group, tel: +358 400 991192,
email: nikolai.kildishov@lamor.fi
Nico Larsen, President & CEO Lamor Group, tel: +358 40 517 7920, email: nico.larsen@lamor.fi

Lamor is a leading provider of innovative oil spill response solutions. With more than 27 years of experience in oil spill response technologies, we focus on customized solutions for the best response operations available. Our sales office network covers the globe with production facilities in Finland, Russia, USA and Asia. We are committed to finding new solutions to protect the environment from oil spills and to leading the way in ‘smart solutions to pollution’.     
Lamor employs approx 80 people. Our production network is worldwide and employs an estimated 200persons. Operations in Finland include the head office (sales, marketing, administration) and main production and logistics centre. Learn more about us at www.lamor.com

Porvoo, Finland – August 24th, 2009 – Hyde Marine, Inc., a Lamor Group company, recently participated in the 14th Ship Owner Technical Seminar Taking place on August 14th in Taipei, Taiwan, during the aftermath of the typhoon Morakot.

Morakot was the first typhoon to hit Taiwan this year. In this part of the world, typhoons are frequent between July and September, often causing injuries and deaths in mountainous regions prone to landslides and floods. This typhoon caused the worst flooding in fifty years, and Taiwan received 2.5 m (100 inches) of rain in 24 hours.

Hyde Marine’s COO Mr. Mats Björkendahl and Asia Sales Director Mr. Steven Matthew arrived in Kaohsiung City after the typhoon smashed into Taiwan. Despite the challenging circumstances, the Taiwanese Ship Owners and the Organizing Committee persevered and carried out an extremely successful and rewarding seminar in the aftermath of the Morakot.

The Technical Seminar focused on Ballast Water Management and Hyde Marine presented the Hyde GUARDIAN™, a Ballast Water Treatment system that is one of only six systems that have received International Maritime Organization (IMO) type approval. What made this seminar unforgettable, were the remarkable atmosphere and the tremendous enthusiasm and willingness of the participants to help the Morakot victims.  Mrs. Joyce Chen, Managing Director of LSC Multech Co., Ltd., Hyde Marine’s representative in Taiwan, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee, inspired all the 180 participants of the Technical Seminar by making a substantial personal donation to support the people suffering from the aftermath of the typhoon. Mrs. Chen’s donation led to a landslide of donations by the seminar attendees, the Organizing Committee as well as by all the banquet guests.

“In our business we are not only trying to protect and preserve the environment, we also contribute to rebuild after natural catastrophes like the Morakot,” says Mats Bjorkendahl, COO of Hyde Marine Inc.

Porvoo, Finland – The Lamor Group Board is pleased to announce that as of September 24th, 2009, Mr. Kent Björklund has been appointed CEO of Lamor Group.

Kent Björklund is quite familiar with Lamor, since he has been running Lamor Technics Ltd., the production and logistics company of Lamor Group, ever since its establishment in 2006. Björklund has a wide experience of not only the environmental and oil spill response business, but also from developing and leading different business ventures.   

– I am pleased to welcome our new Group CEO Kent Björklund to our team. With his knowhow of systematics and processes, Kent compliments very well our sales oriented team, said Nico Larsen, who resigns as CEO of Lamor Group to become an active Board Member.

- The Board will focus on strategic relations to key clients and business development, as well as uphold the Lamor traditions as a privately owned family company, said Fred Larsen, Lamor Group Board Member.

– We will concentrate on serving our customers better and more efficiently than before by systemizing and clarifying our sales and production processes, commented Kent Björklund upon accepting the new position, adding that the co-operation and contacts will remain as before.

From left to right: Fred Larsen, Kent Björklund and Nico Larsen

Additional information:
Kent Björklund, Lamor Group CEO, tel: +358 20 765 0101, email: kent.bjorklund@lamor.com

The Lamor Group of companies is a world leader in oil spill response and environmental technologies. With ore than 25 years of experience, Lamor specialises in comprehensive solutions developed for a specific problem using efficient environmental technologies. The company’s sales office network covers the globe with production facilities located in Finland, the U.S. and Asia. The turnover amounted to 58 million euro during the last financial year (18 months).