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channel and pipeline rehabilitation industry in the U.S. sales decline in the past five years has experienced. According to IBISWorld analyst Justin Molavi “are expected to fall by 1.2% annually on average $ 5.1 billion in five years in 2012. To restrain the recession and local government budgets and sharp decline in residential construction reduced to the background are fewer projects were completed . Despite these declines met industry favorable conditions up to the recession, because the real estate boom led to increased investment in drainage and pipe restoration and renovation to accommodate the demand for new housing. “Nevertheless, this is not a positive development sufficient to meet the Industrys prospects throughout the season, conversely, because of public funds were limited and the industry to keep the cost of water cut.

but the recession has led to some positive developments in the industry, complemented Molavi. “In response to the recession, the U.S. government, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) trying to stimulate the economy. In return, many of these agreements to the state as well as water and wastewater infrastructure to improve the industry will benefit was. firms to win these contracts are usually better than their peers, as services were for the industrial demand is low during the recession. “facilitate addition to the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates on a broad front, because the U.S. government is trying the economy to revive in a different way again. Low interest rates usually benefit from the industry, companies are able to borrow at an affordable price, provides the opportunity for higher profit margins for some companies. This trend bodes well for the industrial companies at an affordable end of the project in 2012 to borrow. Revenue is expected to grow by 2.3% in 2011-2012.

“is set in the next five years to improve the industry,” says Molavi. “Despite the limited local and state budgets and the increasing restrictions on the housing market, these factors are set to be recovering in the second half of the five-year 2017 profit from the growth of the industry. Some regions will benefit from the industry than others, like expected, the demographic changes in the value of players from the western part of the country. ” The policy of low interest rates continue to receive for the finance industry and gamers will be able to base its operation easier. As a result of these developments is the sales forecast to average 3.6% per year growth

canal and pipeline rehabilitation is accounted characterized by a low concentration, where the first four companies accounted for the estimated revenue for approximately 10%. This low level reflects the Industrys highly fragmented, with a few companies that operate in more than one regional market. Largest industry player, Insituform Technologies (owned by Aegion Corporation) is one of the few companies that is active worldwide. Other important (albeit small) companies are the SAK Construction, which focuses on the U.S. West region. The remaining 1137 companies in the region and work is often only one municipality or county. In addition, local public works agencies to manage and finance a substantial portion of industrial activity. These communities are often the task of giving some preference for small and local businesses, strengthening the Industrys fragmentation.

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canal and pipeline rehabilitation industry consists of companies engaged in the rehabilitation of sewers, drains, wells, water pipes, tanks, wells and related facilities on the loose grave and other methods. Industry does not include the construction of new sewer lines and related structures.

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Open Ocean Capital, in early-stage venture capital firm with experienced investors and entrepreneurs in the MySQL success story, today announced its first investment in the fund for three recently closed. Open Ocean Capital has more than $ 1 million in Zentyal, a developer of Linux on the Small Business Server-based investing.

is a tremendous opportunity for growth and opportunities for small and midsize companies with cloud-based IT infrastructure to serve. Zentyal is willing to compromise with the billions of dollars of business processes in the SMB server, said Tom Henriksson, Open Ocean Zentyal partner and member of the Board.

Open Ocean Capital focusing on investments in companies of their user community and open source based business models and disruptive product range, the ability to sue, successfully, their behavior has on the market. Investments are typically bound 0.5-1M ($ 0.6-1.2M), one or more follow-up investments to achieve growth targets. The largest investment is 6M ($ 7.7 million) per portfolio company.

Zentyal is a fast-growing server solution using a cloud-based services to network management easy and safe for small and medium enterprises. In just three years, we have a reference to the Linux SMB server, and now, more than 30,000 downloads per month is the perfect time to venture capital significantly disrupt the market. Open Ocean Capital will provide us with both agents and the best insight into the industry helps us to challenge current market leader, “said Ignacio Correas, Managing Zentyal.

Zentyal is ideal for the open threes Ocean Fund’s investment policy focus. We look forward to the development of Zentyal quickly scalable business models on the basis of a vibrant open source community, and to support the product, said Tom Henriksson.

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called Open Ocean May 2011 and 40M in the first capital of the closure to life. Open Ocean target markets software products and services, mobile computing and applications, cloud computing, software-as-a-Service, Enterprise 2.0 and the Open Source Development with MySQL had a catalytic role.

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Open Ocean is one of the leading early-stage venture capital firm, with particular focus on the business use of the user or the open-source business models. Open Ocean was the first major owner of MySQL AB, which was later sold to Sun Microsystems, a $ 1000000000 in 2008. Over and over for many venture capital firms in the Open Ocean is also able to take advantage of the direct experience of the founders of MySQL to provide practical assistance to businesses, government funding for the open oceans. Open Ocean Partners, leads Patrik Backman, Ralf Wahlsten and Tom Henriksson and community and open source wizard Michael Monty Widenius, developer of the MySQL database and co-founder of MySQL AB. http://www.openoceancapital.com

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Zentyal, developer of the Linux server has the same name, the goal is to small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution that operate are also easy and affordable. To this aim, the company develops Zentyal server to reach and provides support, services and solutions, either on the server Zentyal Certified Partner or directly to end users based. Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and now it is an open-source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server receives over 30,000 downloads per month and the project is active, more than 5,000 members. Zentyal in Zaragoza, Spain. http://www.zentyal.com

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