W&O Opens Second European Facility

July 19, 2010

W&O, the United States’ largest supplier of marine valves, pipe, fittings, engineered products and valve automation solutions, opened its newest facility in the Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands, expanding global availability of products and services to better serve European and Asian customers. 

The new facility in Rotterdam is strategically located in the geographic center of the Port of Rotterdam complex for the efficient delivery of services and distribution of products to customers, and will work closely with W&O’s facility in Antwerp, Belgium. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and the fourth largest in the world, serving as a home to hundreds of companies representing a variety of industries.  More than 35,000 seagoing vessels visit the Port of Rotterdam on average every year, which are responsible for nearly 400 million metric tons of throughput each year.

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