Norkram History

Norkram Limited was formed in April 1994 by Mark Cruttenden and Ron Slater (hence the name) to solve the 'Thread Protector Problem' for a major Norwegian oil company.
The simple, and still the most effective, solution:
clean and test the used protectors and send them back for reuse.

Norkram started operating in Newburgh, north of Aberdeen, where the cleaning and testing processes were determined and refined, and within a very short space of time a production line was in place.
The first order of 1500 sets of 7' NK3SB thread protectors were shipped to the NKK steel mill in Japan soon after.

Our customer base expanded over the next few years, until we were supplying refurbished protectors and bumper rings to most of the oil companies and threading workshops in the north east of Scotland and various overseas locations.

By 1998, it was evident the building in Newburgh could not facilitate the continued expansion of the company so new premises were sought.

Longside Airfield Industrial Estate, near Peterhead, gave us exactly what we required. 8,000 metres² of outside storage and 1,000 metres² of workshop and inside storage.

A new semi-automatic cleaning machine was installed allowing us to increase production rates in line with the increasing customer base.

In 2002, we installed a plastics granulator, allowing us to recycle unusable protectors to high-density polyethylene (HDPE) chips.

Early 2007 we purchased a shredding machine to speed up the granulating process.

We have supplied our products to every country in the North Sea area and shipped refurbished protectors to steel mills in Scotland, Japan, Mexico and Italy for reuse.

Currently we are supplying refurbished thread protectors and associated tubular protection products and services to the majority of the oil companies, threading shops and tubular service and supply companies in the region.