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Tuesday, July 02 2019 - 23:00
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Terra Drone invests in RoNik Inspectioneering to grow confined space inspection portfolio in the process industry
TOKYO, July 2, 2019/PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

-The new joint venture, Terra Inspectioneering, will focus on the oil and gas 
sector across the globe 


Terra Drone Corporation, one of largest providers of industrial drone solutions 
in the world, is announcing the completion of its investment in RoNik 
Inspectioneering, a leading Dutch company that performs visual and ultrasonic 
inspections using wireless robotics. With this investment, RoNik 
Inspectioneering becomes a part of the Terra Drone group and gets renamed as 
Terra Inspectioneering. The company will focus on the inspection of industrial, 
hazardous, and enclosed spaces, such as storage tanks, boilers, super heaters, 
furnaces, stacks, pipelines and more.

RoNik comes with a long history of providing inspection services to oil and 
gas, petrochemical, and food and beverage companies in Europe. It has performed 
more than 200 inspections till date and counts global major oil and gas 
companies among its clients.(See its inspection processes: 
https://vimeo.com/290357142) Earlier this year, RoNik won the Drone Hero Europe 
2019 contest which was organized by the European UAV Knowledge Area (EUKA). 
Terra Drone is known to invest in technology companies that offer 
differentiated unmanned solutions to users and RoNik fits this bill perfectly. 

RoNik has carved a unique niche in the industry by developing a propriety UT 
technology which makes ultrasonic thickness testing at hard-to-reach indoor 
places extremely easy. The use of drones for tank inspections not only 
eliminates the need to put humans in dangerous places, but it also reduces the 
time taken for inspection by 40% to 60%. The data captured by RoNik's patented 
UT drones is shared in the form of innovative cloud-based 3D models. These 
reports are fully compliant with storage tank industry inspection standards 
such as API-653 and EEMUA 159. 

Toru Tokushige, CEO, Terra Drone Corporation, says, "Oil and gas companies are 
fast realizing how drones can be used to improve plant operation rates, save 
time, and reduce costs. By incorporating RoNik's proven and reliable 
nondestructive testing technologies to the solution set we offer via Terra 
Drone's global network of more than 25 countries, we will be able to cater to 
oil and gas companies in all parts of the world."

Terra Drone will continue to invest in world's leading companies with 
cutting-edge technology.

For more information, contact:
Terra Drone Co.
Tel: +81(0)3-6319-7193
Email: info.en@terra-drone.co.jp
Terra Drone Website: https://www.terra-drone.net/global/

Photo - https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20190701/2513700-1-a 
Photo - https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20190701/2513700-1-b 

SOURCE: Terra Drone Corporation

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   Caption: RoNik's patented drone inspects tank thickness

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   Caption: UT graph that can be checked on the ground monitor

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