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At the end of March, Eerik Marmei, the Ambassador of Estonia to Latvia, visited the Elme Metall service centre and the Elme Messer Gaas filling station in Riga.
Algerd Andruškevitšus, a member of the Elme Metall Management Board, Maksim Malanjin, CEO of an ELME Metall subsidiary in Latvia and Sergei Vasiljev, CCO at Elme Metall, introduced His Excellency and Signa Millere, a business and investment adviser, to the Elme Metall group’s activities in five countries, its significant projects, and plans for the future. During the conversation, the diplomat noted that Estonia is the second-largest foreign investor in Latvia.
During the tour around the service centre, the guests had a chance to see for themselves the manufacture of long rolled, shaped and tubular steel parts, which are later used for various projects in the field of offshore wind power engineering, shipbuilding and ship repair, for steel structures fabrication et cetera.
The diplomat also visited the next-generation Elme Messer Gaas filling station in Riga, which was put into operation in late summer 2017.
Eerik Marmei, accompanied by Elme Messer Gaas Marketing Director in Riga Vadims Kjasilis, looked around the fully automated station, where the operator only needs to position and connect a cylinder, select a gas blend and press a button. The station was certified in 2018 for producing medical oxygen in cylinders, which is complex and technologically advanced, just like any pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The sophisticated equipment and production process both at the service centre and the filling station produced a rather strong impression on His Excellency. The ambassador was also impressed with the thorough approach to work and working conditions in our companies, so he stayed considerably longer than he had initially planned.