Read about the Komara Midi Skimmer, plastic pellets pollution recovery, and how Vikoma are supporting and inspiring students in our community...
December 2024 Newsletter
Read about the Komara Midi Skimmer, plastic pellets pollution recovery, and how Vikoma are supporting and inspiring students in our community...
Meet Vikoma’s new oil skimmer which is quick and easy to deploy and benefits from an integrated pump …….
Our development team have been busy and we are proud to introduce our Komara Midi 2 Duplex skimmer which comes complete with a built in on board pump. This will become a favourite for operators as it is quick and easy to deploy … no need to for a separate pump and less hoses. Maintenance is easy too.
By integrating the pump the unit has a smaller footprint than a skimmer with separate pump, so less vessel deck space needed and cheaper /easier to transport.
With interchangeable disc and brush modules giving flexibility to suit the oil viscosity and a recovery rate of up to 15m3/hour, Komara Midi 2 Duplex OBP will become the skimmer of choice for many.
Come and see us at IOSC next week and be the first to see our new skimmer.
Vikoma is highly commended by The Department for Business and Trade.....
We are delighted to announce that Vikoma has been selected as a “Highly Commended” business for the 2024 Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards for Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing & Construction category by the Department for Business and Trade.
This recognises the world class product we design and manufacture from our UK factory on the Isle of Wight and have been exporting to all parts of the world for over 50 years.
Vikoma wins its first Platinum award for Green Impact
Karen Lucas (Managing Director) and Karen Whitehead were delighted to accept Green Impact’s 2023 Platinum award recognising efforts to make a positive difference to the way of working and impact on our environment and sustainability. The scheme is delivered by SOS (Students Organising Sustainability).
Vikoma was also given a special award for environmental improvement recognising the improvements and energy reductions resulting from upgrading equipment and processes in the factory.
Vikoma has got more people in its team involved in Green Impact actions which has led to more actions being completed and improvements being seen than in previous years when Gold Awards have been received.
The Green Impact scheme has widened its scope and as well as providing students in the UK with work experience and helping UK organisations become more sustainable, it is now involving overseas organisations and students too.
The award was timely and coincided with Vikoma’s new solar panels going live and starting to generate electricity. Initial results have been impressive and even on a grey day last week, we generated more energy than we used over a large part of the day.
Read about our Komara Seaskimmer as well as the new Paravane Mini and more......
February 2024 NewsletterVikoma are pleased to announce the release of our February 2024 newsletter.
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July's newsletter has solutions for Atex zone 1 jetties with space restrictions, zone 0 oil skimmers and refurbishing product as a step towards the circular economy..
Vikoma are pleased to announce the release of our July 2023 newsletter.
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Vikoma wins award for Environment and Sustainability 2023
Vikoma is absolutely delighted to win the Environment and Sustainability award at the IW Chamber of Awards. It recognises not only the environmental products manufactured but also the sustained commitment to continual improvement to operate in a sustainable way and reduce the carbon footprint.
Vikoma wins third successive gold award with the NUS green impact scheme for 2022
Vikoma are delighted to have our third successive gold award with the NUS green impact scheme for 2022. Not only has Vikoma made positive steps to protect our environment, but the program engaged 880 students nationally giving them experience as auditors and opportunity to improve sustainability in their organisations as well as valuable work experience. This year 428 organisations took part including hospitals, businesses and local authorities with 4382 members of staff being actively involved.
Thank you to everyone at Vikoma for making this happen again.
December's newsletter contains updates on new products, investing in our business and how we're looking after our environment and supporting our community.
Vikoma are pleased to announce the release of our December 2022 newsletter.
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Vikoma has launched a new paravane for deploying booms and skimmers such as it’s Fasflo system.
Vikoma’s paravane is a powerful and versatile tool with a unique vane profile to maximise efficiency. In a traditional open water boom deployment it replaces the tow boat, enabling a single vessel to deploy a boom system.
There are other paravanes on the market, however Vikoma’s has a unique feature as it is a modular system allowing easy conversion between it’s Midi and Maxi versions (medium and large). This flexibility is a useful feature for buyers by keeping the investment cost down, with one piece of equipment being easily convertible to suit the size of boom being used, rather than buying two separate sizes of paravane.
As well as saving money, this is an environmentally friendly solution keeping the carbon footprint down as less materials are used.
Vikoma offer three models; Paravane Maxi, Paravane Midi and Paravane Mini.
Paravane Maxi has a twin vane arrangement and is ideally suited to medium to large boom systems and Fasflo Maxi in open water. Paravane Midi has a single vane arrangement and is suited to small to medium boom systems and Fasflo Mini in rivers and sheltered waters.
In a river deployment, Paravane Mini can be used alongside personnel to manually deploy a boom system without the need for a boat. This functionality minimises personnel and reduces costs making it ideally suited to training exercises as well as oil spill response.
For more information please contact us or visit our paravane webpage.
We are very proud to be awarded Manufacture and Export business of the year at the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Awards.
We are very proud to be awarded Manufacture and Export business of the year at the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Awards. Although the last couple of years haven’t been easy for any international business with lockdowns and travel restrictions, we’ve come out stronger. We’ve invested in new factory equipment which increases our productivity as well as reducing our carbon footprint. We’ve also won business from new countries we haven’t worked with before. Hard work by the entire team and adapting to different ways of working has been key to our success.
For more information please contact us.
Vikoma are pleased to announce the release of the October 2021 newsletter.
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