Haven Den Helder

Founded in 1984, HGG Group is the absolute specialist in the field of steel profile cutting. The Group consists of HGG Profiling Equipment BV and HGG Profiling Contractors BV. HGG Profiling Equipment is a manufacturer of special high-precision stationary and mobile Computerized Numeral Control (CNC) pipe cutting machines. Over the last 23 years the company has supplied pipe cutting machines that cover a diameter range from 28 to 6,000 mm. The company also developed an innovative Robot Profile Cutting Line (PLC600).

HGG Profiling Contractors provides cutting services as a subcontractor. This company operates a wide variety of cutting machines. In 1996 a second subcontracting company was established in Germany and in 2005 another one in Great Britain.

HOC Versteeg Testing, with approximately twenty years experience in the lifting and hoisting equipment industry, is a well specialised company for the testing of all sorts of hoisting tools, containers, baskets and elevators. The company''s testing equipment is mobile, so it can work on locations onshore as well as offshore. This way the hoisting equipment stays where needed and it saves time, availability, administration and transport.

HOC Versteeg Testing is an official testing company approved by the Dutch Harbour and Labour Inspection and the EKH (Erkende Keurbedrijven Hijs- en Hefmiddelen).

Holland Safety is specialised in the supply, installation and maintenance of fire extinguishing equipment and safety equipment for the shipping and offshore industry, and is an REOB certified maintenance company for small fire extinguishing equipment. Holland Safety is certified by Det Norske Veritas, Lloyds Register, Scheepvaartinspectie (Shipping Inspectorate) and ABS. It is also VCA* and ISO 9001:2000 certified. The company is also specialised in inspecting lifejackets, life rafts, fall protection equipment and compressed air units.

Holland Stores Oilfield Supply & Services is specialised in the supply of fluid-end expendables for most drilling mud pumps and centrifugal pumps, on today''s drilling rigs. As a general supplier the company is able to provide the best products available at economical rates. Besides the fluid-end expandable products, the company provides services in supplying high-pressure mud manifold fittings, wing unions and mud valves for mud manifolds and standpipe manifolds. Holland Stores Oilfield Supply & Services keeps offices and warehouses in Anna Paulowna, the Netherlands, and in Gildehaus, Germany.

Having worked for a number of years at the naval dock yard, Rob Houtkooper decided, in 1991, to start his own marine insulation company, specialising in the insulation of pipes, flanges, valves, exhaust units, engines, etc. A further specialisation of the company is the expert and environmentally-friendly removal of asbestos insulation material.

As a result of the growth of the company, it now occupies a large warehouse on the site of the Visser Den Helder shipyard. R. Houtkooper Isolatietechniek provides services for offshore vessels, fishing boats, naval vessels, freighters and refrigerated vessels.

All across Europe, Den Helder-based Hotshot Int Road Couriers performs fast messenger services especially for the offshore industry. This firm has acquired many years of experience in this line of work. It has three fast cars, two pick-up trucks, and three regular trucks. Hotshot picks up and delivers letters, packages and components weighing up to a total of 10 tons.

Hunter Offshore has been active in the offshore industry since 1990. With the guard ship Hunter offshore services are carried out for oil companies, and pipeline, diving and installation contractors. The work area comprises mainly the entire North Sea and the waters west of England.