The work of Diak Technical Export Ltd.

Diak is an unusual engineering company, which seeks to provide a specific role in the developing world. Our speciality is marine and port interface work and we are located close to Southampton Container Port in England..

The company was founded in 1979 by two English engineers, a Naval Architect and an Electrical Engineer, both with extensive overseas experience in the export world, and since then has completed about 1100 engineering consultancy, supply and design projects.

Diak addresses the reality of life for it's clients who often find themselves in difficult circumstances without access to the facilities or expertise necessary to maintain their operations. Typically a client maybe a port or railway authority, or a petrochemical works, or an agro processing plant. In this web site we outline our experience within the many industries where we have worked.

Our work ranges from the most modern technology, such as computerising process control systems through to rescuing obsolete technology. Many of the examples shown on the site refer to machinery which is obsolete or whose manufacturer has ceased production. The high incidence of this type of work arises from the concentration of our activities in developing countries and the reluctance of major industrial companies to get involved in older style installations.

We invite clients to come to Diak to solve their problems with a service quite unlike other companies. Diak aims to restore a client's factory, equipment or machines to a modern full working condition.


How can we help you?

Diak will survey, diagnose problem areas and devise technical solutions to restore marine vessels, cranes and port interface equipment.
Diak can provide an economic source of engineering equipment and parts.
Diak can manufacture special parts to order to fill the gaps in what is available from conventional sources. 
Diak can source good used equipment, recondition and manage the installation and integration into the existing infrastructure.
Diak can perform a limited re-design of part of your unit and the integration of a new technology item into the old system.

Diak can rescue broken engineering components, use these to create manufacturing patterns or drawings, and then make new replacement parts for a machine whose manufacturer closed many years before.

Diak can design a computerised process control to automate a less efficient old set of machines or processes.
- and many other methods of solving your problems.

This level of service is pragmatic, realistic and infinitely flexible and is why Diak is valued by so many customers as the only possible solution to so many engineering situations. Not every project offered to us is economically viable, but if Diak cannot do it at a sensible cost, then it probably could never be done.


Diak data

Company registered in England:
15th February 1979
Status:
Privately owned limited company under the laws of England
Company number:
1415104
Registered office:
Arena Business Centre A37, Number Nine Nimrod Way, Ferndown,
Dorset BH21 7SH, England
Share capital (fully paid):
 £75,000 sterling
VAT number:
UK 631 569239
Auditors:
PWP Accounting Services
UK and main warehouse:

Diak Peters & May, Alsthom Railway Works, Building 11, Campbell Road,
Eastleigh, Southampton SO50 5AD

Shippers and receiving depots:

Datema, Rotterdam, Netherlands
BDP, Houston, USA
BDP, Baltimore, USA
Stoneage, Singapore
Newman Shipping, Antwerp, Belgium
Eiffe, Bremen, Germany

Bankers:
HSBC PLC., Market Place, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 8XD England
Standard Chartered Bank Ltd.
Managing Director:
Michael R. Arkell
Company Secretary:
Candy  Battiscombe
Production Consultant :
Richard M. Richardson
Projects quoted for:
Total of 5275 in number from February 1979 to July 2007
Contracts awarded:

Total of 1070 in number from February 1979 to Jan 2007