THE EQUIPMENT RENTAL SPECIALISTS

T H E E Q U I P M E N T R E N T A L S P E C I A L I S T S

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The equipmentrental specialists

Vp Timeline 04

Welcome to Vp 07

The Vp Divisions 08

Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services 10

Groundforce 12

Hire Station 14

Torrent Trackside 16

TPA 18

UK Forks 20

Global Coverage 22

Contact Details 23

Contents


1954Vibratory Roller &Plant Hire (Northern)Limited founded 1973

Floated on mainmarket Vibroplant plc

1982US powered accessbusiness established

1975First move intospecialist - Airpac

1980Shoring divisionestablished

1990Groundforce acquiredfrom SGB

1996Exit from USA; UKspecialist businessesexpanded

1954

19731980 1990

1996Tool Hire:Cannon Tool Hireacquired in 1996

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V p p l c P R O F I L E

Turnover 1970: £2m 1980: £14m 1990: £70m


2005TPA and ESSacquired

2000UK Forksdivision created

1997Rail: TorrentTrackside acquired

2012

2006

2001Hire Station formed through mergerof five regional tool businesses

2002-2004Shoring expansion throughacquisition of Mechplant,Trenchshore & Eve Shorco

2006Acquisition ofBukom Oilfield Services(Airpac Bukom formed)

2011Mainland Europe -Groundforce

2010Geographical expansion:Global (Airpac Bukom),Eire (Groundforce),Germany (TPA)

2007-2009Continuing growth in specialistareas via acquisitions of MEPand UMole

2001Renamed Vp plc

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2000: £55m 2010: £134m 2012: £164m



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Welcome to Vp plc, the equipment rental specialistThis booklet provides an overview of the constituent elements of the Vp Group.We hope that you find this brief summary of our activities of interest and wewould be delighted to have the opportunity to discuss our wide range of serviceofferings with you.

The Vp Group

Vp is a long established group which has

evolved over a 60 year trading history. The

Group comprises of six main operating

divisions: Groundforce, UK Forks, Airpac

Bukom Oilfield Services, Hire Station, Torrent

Trackside and TPA.

These businesses offer the rental and sale of

specialist products and associated services

to a diverse range of end markets, including;

construction, civil engineering, rail, water, oil

and gas, outdoor events and housebuilding.

Our expertise is in asset management and

we offer our services both in the UK and

mainland Europe. Our oil and gas business

operates internationally from a network of

hubs across the globe.

Whether you are a current or prospective

customer, employee, investor or supplier,

we hope that you will find the contents of

this booklet informative.

If you wish to make further enquiries or

have any comments we would be delighted

to receive them at [email protected]


Jeremy PilkingtonChairman


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Hire Station is a major national provider ofsmall tools, climate, lifting, safety, surveyand pressfitting equipment to industry,construction and homeowners throughoutthe UK.

Hire Station businesses:

Tools - Small tool hire product specialist

ESS Safeforce - Safety, survey andenvironmental products, confinedspace training

MEP - Press fitting and electrofusionequipment

Lifting Point - Materials handling andlifting gear products

Climate Hire - Warm, cool, clean anddry air products

Specialist suppliers of rail infrastructureportable plant and related tracksideservices to Network Rail, LondonUnderground and their appointed trackrenewal and project contractors.

Torrent Trackside are dedicated to the railmarket and supply rail portable plant andassociated trackside services includingtrackside lighting and cold hole expansiondelivery to contractors on the nationalinfrastructure, London Underground andlight rail and tram systems across the UK.Torrent also supply highly skilled plantoperators further enhancing the servicequality our customers demand during timebarred possessions.

Groundforce is the market leading rentalprovider of excavation support, piling, pipestoppers, air pressure testing, pumps,trenchless technology, and temporary bridges.The division operates throughout the UK andIreland and also in mainland Europe, out of itsoperational hubs in Germany.

Groundforce businesses:

Groundforce Shorco - Excavation Support

Groundforce Bridge - Temporary Bridging

Stopper Specialists - Pipe Testing & Flow Control

Shorflo - Specialists Pumps

Piletec - Piling Equipment

U Mole - Trenchless Technology



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UK Forks has established itself as the UK’sleading specialist hirer of telescopichandlers and associated equipment.Working closely with our wide range ofcustomers we consistently identifyopportunities to improve safety andproductivity on building sites. We have afleet of over a thousand machines,controlled by a centralised hire desk,promoting efficient fleet managementand supporting a range of targetedmarket sectors.

Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services holds amarket leading position in the provision ofspecialist compressed air and steamgeneration services. The businesssupports industry segments as diverse aswell testing, offshore fabric maintenance,pipeline dewatering, product transfer,underbalanced drilling (UBD), cuttingstransportation and geothermal energy inmost oil provinces across the globe. Ourequipment spreads are mobilised from anunrivalled network of service facilitieslocated in the UK, Singapore, Australia,U.A.E. and Latin America.

TPA Portable Roadways has experiencedsignificant growth in recent years tobecome Europe’s largest supplier oftemporary access solutions. Operating frombases in UK and Germany TPA providesunrivalled equipment rental and first classinstallation of portable roadways, walkwaysand stairways, to customers in the outdoorevents, transmission, construction andutilities markets.




t: 01224 715008e: [email protected]

Airpac BukomOilfield Services

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Airpac Bukom Oilfield ServicesFor over 35 years, Airpac Bukom has specialised in thesupply of operated air and steam equipment rentalsolutions to a wide variety of markets. These include welltesting andmaintenance, LNG pneumatic testing, pipelinedewatering and drying, product transfer, underbalanceddrilling (UBD), cuttings transportation and unconventionalenergymarket sectors.

The business has grown fourfold over thepast five years, and has over time beentransformed from being a North Seadedicated business to one that holds aleading position within global oil and gasservice markets.

MODERN, SPECIALIST RENTAL FLEETWith a large fleet of air compressors, steamgenerators, booster compressors, heatexchangers, dual pot sand filters, coflexiphoses and air treatment ancillaries, AirpacBukom is now the largest rental provider of itstype to the well testing market in the world.

The air and steam products arecomplemented by the largest global rentalfleet of dual pot sand filters, steam heatexchanger units and coflexip hoses, suitablefor deepwater surface well test and clean-upoperations. Supplementing the range ofcompressed air and steam equipment, awide range of multi-pressure air treatmentancillaries are available for mobilisation.

GLOBAL SUPPORT NETWORKOriginally set up to support North Seaexploration in themid 1970s, Airpac Bukomhas since developed an unrivalled network ofsix international sales, distribution and servicingfacilities located in Aberdeen, Great Yarmouth,Singapore, Australia, the Middle East and theAmericas in support of its client activities. TheAirpac Bukom philosophy is to provide localsupport for local operations.

Our operators and equipment have worked inover 60 countries across the globe.

“Airpac Bukom supplied, operated andmaintained all the specialised dry oil freecompressed air spreads that we required forpneumatic testing and line blowing of thePluto LNG modules both in Thailand duringfabrication and on site at the Pluto Gas plantduring construction and commissioning.During the four year project duration theequipment supplied was operated withoutinterruption to the process and tospecification. The Airpac Bukom crew workedprofessionally, safely and integratedseamlessly into our testing organisation.”

Mark Potter, Completions Manager,Foster Wheeler WorleyParsons (FWW)joint venture



t: 0800 000 345e: [email protected]

GroundforceSpecialist Construction Solutions

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GroundforceGroundforce is the UK market leading rental provider ofexcavation support, piling, pipe stoppers, trenchlesstechnology, pumps and temporary bridges.

With 35 years of experience, Groundforcehas an enviable portfolio of products andservices developed to meet the stringentsafety requirements of today’s market.It operates in the UK, Ireland andmainland Europe.

Groundforce works with some ofEurope’s leading contractors and has beena supplier of equipment to a range of highprofile construction projects that include:Crossrail, the Stockholm ring road,Limerick Tunnel, Heathrow Airport,Wembley Stadium, the Olympic Park andTyne Tunnel Crossing.

Groundforce continually invests in newtechnology and product ranges across allof its operating businesses. In 2011,Groundforce launched their industry leadingwireless load monitoring system, settingnew standards in excavation support. This,along with other achievements, isfrequently acknowledged by theconstruction industry, via nominations forprestigious national awards.

“We have been able to install each 47mlong MP500 prop in less than half a day,which is far quicker than a traditionalfabricated solution. The system does notrequire any mid-span support and has theadded benefit of incorporating a loadmonitoring system.”

Bradley Barham, Contracts Manager,PJ Carey, Merchant Square, London




Hire StationTools for Industry, Construction & DIY

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Hire StationHire Station is a major national provider of small tools,climate, lifting, safety, survey and pressfittingequipment to industry, construction and homeownersthroughout the UK.

With almost a hundred trading centres,we are able to service both local andnational customers across all UKmainland locations.

Hire Station customers have the opportunityto either deal on a local basis with ourexperienced managers and sales teams orthrough our national call centre inManchester. Either way they have access tothe most modern fleet within the industrywith guaranteed availability on the mostpopular lines.

Hire Station trades through a number ofleading brands and prides itself on havingexpertise in these product areas:

Tools - Small tool hire product specialist

ESS Safeforce - Safety, survey andenvironmental products, confinedspace training

MEP - Press fitting and electrofusionequipment

Lifting Point - Materials handling andlifting gear products

Climate Hire - Warm, cool, clean anddry air products

Hire Station’s award winning website givescustomers the opportunity to orderequipment online and access a suite of realtime management information enabling anunderstanding of what they are spending bysite and by business.

Hire Station are asset managementspecialists and, through our continualimprovement programme “Transform”, ourfocus is on delivering the very best serviceto our customers.

”We have been working with Hire Stationand Vp plc for 3 years and have enjoyedhigh levels of service and support carriedout with honesty and integrity.”

Michael Edwards,Group Procurement Manager,Enterprise plc




Torrent TracksideRailway Plant. Railway People.

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Torrent TracksideSpecialist suppliers of rail infrastructure portableplant and related trackside services to Network Rail,London Underground and their appointed trackrenewal and project contractors.

Torrent Trackside are dedicated to the railmarket and supply rail portable plant andassociated trackside services includingtrackside lighting and cold holeexpansion delivery to contractors on thenational infrastructure, LondonUnderground and light rail and tramsystems across the UK. Torrent alsosupply highly skilled plant operatorsfurther enhancing the service quality ourcustomers demand during time barredpossessions.

Being a part of Vp plc for well over a decadehas allowed Torrent to invest in the most upto date, innovative and well maintained fleetin the UK. We also manage and maintain ourcustomers’ fleets when required. This is aservice we deliver direct to Network Rail fortheir owned asset fleet.

Excellence in safety and compliance aretwo vital elements of the value propositionTorrent offer to the rail market. We have anenvied record in both fields. As you wouldexpect we are Link-up approved for all theservices we offer and continue to exceedour customers’ expectations via regularaudits.

Our aims are exactly the same as ourclients, we want to play our part in ensuringthe safe, compliant, effective and efficientoperating of all rail networks across the UK.We see our role in this as crucial and Torrentwill always strive to exceed our clients’expectations on the quality and standardsthey demand.

”At Sersa UK we like to work with supplierswho mirror our values and business ethic.Torrent Trackside work with us in our railbusiness and have shown themselves to bea trustworthy and reliable supplier in the railsector setting a benchmark standard ofsafety, cost effective and quality consciousservice provision.”

George Thompson, Business DirectorSersa UK




TPAPortable Roadways

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TPAEstablished in 2001, TPA Portable Roadways hasexperienced significant growth to become Europe’slargest supplier of access solutions, providing unrivalledequipment rental and first class installations of PortableRoadways, Walkways and Stairways.

Operating for over a decade within abroad spectrum of sectors includingelectricity transmission, rail, utilities,construction, stadium concerts andmusic festivals, TPA has become thetrusted access partner for many ofEurope’s most prestigious events andblue-chip companies.

The Head Office is in Worksop, and issupported via satellite depots inLesmahagow (Glasgow), Port Talbot (SouthWales) and Aylesford (Kent), facilitating aprompt nationwide service within the UK.The depot in Port Laoise, is centrally locatedfor distribution in Ireland and our branchnetwork across Germany, allows us to servicecontracts throughout mainland Europe.

Regular training and accreditation plays a vitalrole in the personal development of the teamensuring that TPA remains to the fore in theportable roadway industry. All installationcrewmembers and field sales engineers aretrained at the TPA Academy.

TPA’s commitment to a quality servicedelivery is further demonstrated by its gainingISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and BS8901 accreditations.

TPA’s unique product range and industryexperience ensures that it supplies themostsuitable access solution, based on the client’sbespoke needs.

“We have partnered with TPA since 2004 asthey have continually demonstrated that theirexperienced crews are able to deliver ontime and on schedule. As the first contractorto arrive on site, and typically the last toleave, they have shown that we can trustthat they will not only adhere to our stringenthealth and safety standards, but have theflexibility to adapt our build and recoveryprogramme should the great British weatherturn inclement. No mean feat when youconsider that this year they’ll install morethan 23,000 linear metres for our events!”

Melvin Benn, Managing Director -Festival Republic




UK ForksMaterials Handling Specialists

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UK ForksAs a UK market leader in the hire of straightmast forkliftsand rough terrain telehandlers, we are fully committed toproviding the very best in responsive customer service.Whether the need is for short or long term hire, we havethe right solution.

A complete serviceOur strategically located depot networkmeans that wherever you are, we’re local.We have a fleet in excess of 1000telehandlers and a host of accompanyingattachments which can lift a wide range ofmaterials. Demonstrating our strength andcommitment to our customers we maintainour investment in a quality fleet and firstclass service engineers in order to continueto fulfill all hire requirements to a highstandard. From our national call centre, weensure customers get the machine theyneed, when they need it.

Adapting to the marketThe dynamic nature of the construction andhousebuild industry requires flexibility inservice provisioning which UK Forks is ideallypositioned to deliver. Our current fleetranges from 4 metre telehandlers to 25metre rotational machines, covering everyconceivable application. As the industrychanges, so do we, and we make everyeffort to ensure we maintain a modern andversatile fleet to meet the ever changingrequirements of our diverse customer base.

“We began trading with UK Forks 6 yearsago and they quickly became one of ourpreferred telehandler providers. The reliableequipment, helpful and knowledgeable hiredesk staff, and emphasis on efficient andquality service has UK Forks firmly rooted onour approved suppliers list.”

Julian Kenyon, Group PR Manager


Globally recognisedNational coverage


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Airpac Bukom Oilfield ServicesMugiemoss RoadBucksburnAberdeen AB21 9NP

Contact details

www.airpacbukom.comt: 01224 715008e: [email protected]

GroundforceCentral House, Beckwith KnowleOtley Road, HarrogateNorth Yorkshire HG3 1UD

www.groundforce.uk.comt: 0800 000 345e: [email protected]

Hire StationFields Farm RoadLong EatonNottingham NG10 3FZ

www.hirestation.co.ukt: 0845 604 5337e: [email protected]

Torrent TracksideNetwork HouseEuropa Way, Britannia Enterprise ParkLichfield, Staffs WS14 9TZ

www.torrent.co.ukt: 0845 769 7168e: [email protected]

TPADukeries MillClaylands Avenue, WorksopNottinghamshire S81 7DJ

www.tpa-ltd.co.ukt: 0870 240 2381e: [email protected]

UK ForksCentral House, Beckwith KnowleOtley Road, HarrogateNorth Yorkshire HG3 1UD

www.ukforks.comt: 0800 123 101e: [email protected]

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