Ross Dickinson, based in the Borders, at first arrived up his pipe maintenance clamp concept to quickly repair leaking domestic h2o pipes.
His Kibosh enterprise has now secured funding from OGTC, the Aberdeen-centered technological know-how centre, to further more create his innovation for oil and fuel, electricity, and industrial sectors exactly where it could have massive potential to decrease downtime.
Together with backing from present investors together with Edinburgh-dependent financial investment syndicate Par Equity, the assist will fund pre-industry demo testing and certification by BSI, the foremost global merchandise requirements assessor, and qualification of its industrial product or service selection by Lloyds Register.
Galashiels-based mostly Kibosh has bought much more than 100,000 domestic clamps so significantly and in February provided many thousand to aid the restoration work in Texas immediately after freezing ailments observed numerous homes there hit by burst pipes.
The firm’s ever more large profile has led to expanding desire from market, with companions which includes Overall, Harbour Electricity, CNOOC International, and Hydratight recognising the opportunity of the clamps to quickly restore ruined pipes and minimise any operational down-time.
A array of industrial clamps are now moving into the closing period of investigate and improvement, with discipline trials thanks to acquire position in the North Sea above the future 18 months. This task will also be supported by University of Strathclyde’s Highly developed Forming Investigation Centre (AFRC), section of the Countrywide Production Institute Scotland.
Dickinson, who is chief technological know-how officer of Kibosh, mentioned: “It’s wonderful now to be operating with some of the greatest names in the energy sector to build products for a array of industrial configurations. I knew rather early in the process that if we could make the clamps successful for domestic use, we had a actually excellent probability of making use of the very same standard alternative in substantial-scale engineering and producing environments.
“We consider our methods have the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the net-zero journey and for the reason that these clamps have this sort of substantial potential for cross-sector compatibility in oil and gasoline and other industries we feel the marketplace prospective is in the billions of lbs range and, most importantly, can aid preserve the world and marketplace a similar amount of money as well.”
In 2015, Dickinson – who still left university aged 16 with no skills and was later on diagnosed with dyslexia – secured funding to start off the initially phase of developing an industrial option with the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC) and Heriot Watt University.
In 2019, he secured funding from Par Equity, and the Scottish Investment Lender, which permitted him to concentrate on Kibosh complete-time and to appoint a small staff to assist him expand the enterprise, which include chairman Keith Gibson, non-govt investment director Audrey Orhorn, and former Procter & Gamble government Andy Peterson, who joined Kibosh as main govt in July 2020.
Paul Atkinson, founding partner at Par Equity, reported Kibosh is one particular of the most interesting enterprises in its portfolio and that industrial scale applications for its solutions have “massive industrial opportunity”.
