Orion Co. is now providing sales representation in Saudi Arabia and the UAE for Graham Engineering Corporation, a blow-moulding machinery maker based in York, Pennsylvania, US.
Orion Co. has been a sales representative company in the Middle East for nine years. Its experience in plastics processing provides a good fit for the extrusion blow-moulding machinery produced by Graham Engineering, said David Yenor, VP for global business development for Graham Engineering.
“This collaboration strengthens our position in the Middle East, as Orion is well known and respected in their markets,” he said. “Their sales and marketing experience will provide a strong support network that will be highly valued by our customers in this region.”
Mohannad Naqqasha, general manager of Orion, said Graham Engineering offers equipment “that fast growing companies in the Middle East are looking for”. “This is a very good fit for Orion, as we are committed to finding solutions for the leading companies in the plastics industry,” he said.
Graham Engineering offers of monolayer and multilayer extrusion blow-moulding equipment including: shuttle machines up to 10 L capacity; reciprocating screw and shot pot machinery for lightweight HDPE containers; multi-cavity, single and dual parison, rotary wheel blow-moulders for up to 30 L packaging applications; and single and dual head accumulator machinery from 5 to 50 lbs (3 to 30 litres) capacity.
Orion has offices in Riyadh, Dubai and Damascus and represents firms that produce machinery for films, profile extrusion and blow moulding, as well as ancillary markets such as laser engraving.