W&O has announced a three-year supply agreement with Norway-based designer and ship builder, VARD Group. Under the agreement, W&O will provide technical support to the design and engineering departments of VARD, covering all valve challenges on newly built vessels. This will include delivering valves, actuation and instrumentation packages to VARD in Norway, Romania, and Vietnam. Vidar Hoel, Technical Project Manager for W&O, based in Alesund, Norway, will lead on technical support throughout the project. With more than 20 years of marine valve experience, Vidar will coordinate a W&O project team of specialists based in Netherlands, Romania and Singapore. W&O's international network of offices and warehouses will support VARD with a trusted service that makes the supply chain of valves easy, quick and efficient. As part of the agreement, VARD will be able to utilise W&O's industry leading data management and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging systems.