PARRY ASSOCIATES:
INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD

British intermediate technology engineers JPM Parry & Associates Ltd have announced significant export orders.  The company supplies equipment for the local manufacture of building materials to customers across the globe.

The company has recently sent elements of their proven technologies to Benin (roofing, flooring and raised floor construction systems for a school classroom), The Gambia (roof tile and block making equipment), Tanzania (clay tile production), Liberia (roof tile moulds) and Zambia (roof tile plant).  Technical training of personnel has been provided for the Benin, Gambia and Tanzania projects.  In addition, a 20-foot container will soon be leaving Parry Associates’ West Midlands workshops bound for Nigeria with two combination roof tile plants and several crates full of donations for the poor and disadvantaged.  There will be further orders from this customer.

In a very interesting development, Mr Aniek Tong Atak of ACBS Ltd – an associate of JPM Parry & Associates Ltd – has opened discussions with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement and the Government of South Sudan with regard to using Parry technology of low-cost, energy-saving building materials in the reconstruction work in South Sudan.  This is to involve both ex-combatants and IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and is intended to help create livelihoods and small industrial centres all over the South.  There are already plants being used in both Yei and Juba.

The majority of enquiries received in recent months by the firm are from Nigeria, but South Sudan, Tanzania, Liberia and South East Asia are also areas where Parry technology is in increasing demand.   The rebuilding of the area in Pakistan hit by last year’s earthquake using the Parry HIGH AND DRY lightweight raised floor system, pioneered by Parry Associates’ Kenya-based director Mr Nick Evans has taken a step forward.  Mr Evans was asked to assess the damage and make a report on the situation based on his experience of similar events.  This is the next challenge to be met by the company.

Parry Associates is also active in the development of urban transport, a natural follow-on from building materials and construction.  The September 2006 issue of The African Review of Business & Technology featured an article on the firm’s lightweight rail technology – and how it can be harnessed to tackle congestion and pollution in the cities of the developing world – written by Caspar Lucas, Technical Services Director.

Paul Barker, Sales Administrator at JPM Parry & Associates said: “The challenge of meeting the requirements for ex-combatants and the displaced in South Sudan, and the homeless in Pakistan, make the coming months a time to show how Parry technologies can help rebuild shattered lives and create livelihoods in the developing world.”

Notes:

JPM Parry & Associates Ltd was founded in 1974 by John Parry, one of the early team of directors of the Intermediate Technology Development Group and chair of its Building Materials Panel, to offer technical services to the construction industry in Britain and overseas. Shortly afterwards, the company started to develop a range of intermediate technology machinery that could be used to produce quality building materials in developing countries using local resources. These are now in service in over 80 countries.

Applied to transport, the Parry approach to technological development produced the flywheel energy storage system licensed to Parry People Movers Ltd (www.parrypeoplemovers.com).

For further information, please contact:

Maureen Freeman, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR or
Paul Martin Barker, SALES ADMINISTRATOR

JPM Parry & Associates Ltd
Overend Road
Cradley Heath
West Midlands
B64 7DD
UK

Telephone: +44 (0)1384 569171
Fax: +44 (0)1384 637753
E-mail: info@parryassociates.com

Website: www.parryassociates.com

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