AN offshore equipment maker says it has secured a world first to enhance its international status.

iNPIPE PRODUCTS™ , in Brompton on Swale, near Catterick, North Yorkshire, makes machines, known as pigs, which are forced through offshore energy pipes to remove debris.

Bosses say it has now agreed to deliver a pig for an Algerian power plant, with the 90in structure destined for use on a structure carrying cooling water.

The pig, ordered by South Korean conglomerate Daewoo, is believed to be the biggest of its kind globally and will be the largest ever made by iNPIPE PRODUCTS™ .

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