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COMBAT & PATROL CRAFT

Vigorously

Vying for

Overseas

Opportunities

Credit: John Fleck

An increasingly diverse Vigor Industrial looks beyond the domestic mal- aise in the government and military small boat sectors for the low hanging fruit that awaits elsewhere.

By Joseph Keefe everaging the combined weight of an already con- The acquisition of Kvichak (2015) and before that, siderable manufacturing base and its two newest Oregon Iron Works (2014) has quietly positioned Vigor

L acquisitions – Kvichak Marine Industries and Or- to vie in the ? ercely competitive government patrol and egon Iron Works – Vigor Industrial is quietly eyeing the combat markets, combining the experience of both and overseas combat and patrol craft market. Acting not only the economy of scale of a state-of-the art metal processing as a balance against a waning domestic military small boat facility in South Seattle. Today, the old OIW and Kvichak market, Vigor also sees potentially rich opportunities with are collaborating under the Vigor Banner, sharing design

Middle East entities who will likely see great need for this and engineering resources, product development and mar- type of littoral craft in the future. And, while Vigor hasn’t keting resources, and each performs production and fabri- bet the whole store on the effort, the weight of the com- cation support for one another. Kvichak has been around bined assets represented by Vigor, OIW and Kvichak are for 35 years and Oregon Iron Works since 1944. Vigor’s fully behind the push. Executive Vice President of Business Development, Keith

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