Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 10

44 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 maximize on-site safety. He notes, “The great thing about Forge Tech is that everything is automated, engineered, and calibrated in-house before technicians take it the field. When they undertake repairs, it’s just a matter of positioning and setting up the machine and pressing a button – it does the rest.” While Forge Tech has only started licensing its solution recently, it has already performed over a thousand Forge Bonding installations and repairs in the U.S. and Venezuela, with additional international markets like Europe, Israel and the Middle East beckoning. The portability of the Forge Bonding solution is perhaps what is making it so easy for the company to pursue such a vast market with a relatively small team, which as Rybicki, explains, “is by design. All the equipment we need to complete a repair can fit into a handful of pelican cases and travel with the technicians by air, sea, or land to the destination site. Forge Bonding also requires less personnel to accomplish the repairs or retrofits versus taking the asset out of service. Where typical off-line jobs can take well over a hundred personnel working for many months, we commonly perform similar tasks with a two- or three-man crew within a few days or weeks, resulting in substantial savings.” Fewer workers means reduced chance of a safety incident. Forge Tech’s solution is perhaps what various industries have been waiting for as pressure to deliver products on time mounts due to post-COVID-19 rebound growth, coupled with enhanced domestic environmental regulatory controls. “In the wake of the BP spill, there was a lot of regulatory backlash, which made it more expensive for companies that did not undertake repairs on time,” explains Rybicki. “And that applies to companies across industries, not just oil and gas.” Against this backdrop, companies introduced to Forge Bonding see it as too good to be true,