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An industrial holding built around engineering
Headquartered in Wiesbaden, working across Europe, the CIS and MENA. Four business domains, four sectors, and a preference for saying plainly what we do and do not do.
About
Who we are
Glorinda GmbH is an international industrial holding company headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. We deliver industrial services through branches across several regions, and we help businesses and industries adopt innovative ideas, address technical challenges and improve operational efficiency.
What that means in practice is narrower and more useful than a holding company description suggests. We develop products under the Glorinda brand and have them manufactured by qualified OEM partners. We engineer and integrate process plants across four sectors. We take engineering and project roles around those plants — feasibility consultant, EPC advisor, owner's engineer, EPCM contractor, and EPC contractor where the scope suits. We help technology owners commercialise internationally. And we structure and access financing for projects that need it.
How we think about the work
Our approach rests on three things. Efficiency — the technologies we offer are selected to be highly efficient compared with the alternatives, with low operating costs from robust and user-friendly processes. Sustainability — we prioritise methods with minimal environmental impact and reduced carbon footprint, and we treat dependable technologies with extended lifespans as a sustainability measure in itself, because it reduces the waste created at the end of equipment life. Innovation — we consistently assess existing methods to determine whether they are still necessary and effective, and we actively seek new solutions rather than repeating designs.
We also believe in horizontal, parallel structures that reinforce and protect each other rather than axial ones — organisations with leading, modifying and developing effects on each other. That is why we focus on economic and industrial activities that interact and are synergic, and avoid designing individual structures and systems in isolation. It sounds abstract until you see how it plays out on a project: the water system, the energy recovery, the products and the financing are usually the same conversation.
The facts
Company data plate
International industrial holding
Klingholzstr. 7, D-65189
ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001
South America developing
Industrial services · Manufacturing · Startup · Finance
ENV · ENE · O&G · F&P
Values
Our values
Trust
Trust is the basis of all relationships. We say what we do and do what we say, and we advise openly and honestly. Becoming a trusted brand requires a culture focused on commitment, quality, teamwork, will to win and personal responsibility.
Cooperation
Being excellent at everything is like chasing perfection — difficult and often unattainable, particularly when top performance in both manufacturing and marketing is required at once. We treat collaboration between companies as a fundamental value, aiming for a structure that generates extra-positive outcomes for all parties.
Accountability
We act with diligence, responsibility, trustworthiness, security, conscientiousness, thoroughness, honesty and decency in all directions.
Innovation
We consistently assess existing methods to determine their necessity and effectiveness, exploring ways to improve them or introduce replacements — aiming for increased efficiency, reduced environmental impact and, where possible, influence on regional trends.
Growth
We have established a growth ecosystem where new ideas can thrive, helping partners recognise opportunities in diverse markets and giving them the marketing tools, roadmaps and access they need.
Sustainability
Methods with minimal environmental impact and reduced carbon footprint, and dependable technologies with extended lifespans that reduce technology-related waste at end of life.
Mission & vision
Mission
We work to create and define innovative, modern systems and structures in economic activity areas, and to support and develop them — showing that innovative and efficient solutions can be designed and implemented successfully.
Vision
We believe that with a modern creative view most losses can be avoided. Our vision is to make change consciously and intelligently: to accelerate positive change and avoid the loss of non-renewable resources, energy and materials. That is only possible by defining new methods for creating economic and industrial structures — and our aim is to become a role model and a dependable consultant and collaborator in doing so.
Leadership
Board members
Glorinda is comprised of professionals with more than 20 years of experience in business and engineering, and our board brings together experienced individuals from several countries — which is where our understanding of different markets and industries comes from.
Arman Ter-Hakobian — Managing Director
More than 12 years providing environmentally friendly disinfection solutions for water and wastewater applications at an international company in the Netherlands. As Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa his focus was managing large-scale municipal projects, and he built an extensive international network of environmental partners.
Amir Yarahmadi — Business Development Deputy
More than 20 years in the international industrial market. Head of the process department at Sterling Fluid Systems' Tehran office in 1999; founder in 2010 of the Dahi Bondad Group, a holding company with six subsidiaries across oil and gas, petrochemicals, water and wastewater, power, after-sales services and health and pharmaceuticals; founder of Tetco engineering and services in Turkey as an EPC company, and of Unicatecno in Portugal in 2018.
Sergio Luciano Valletti — Strategic Planning Deputy
Appointed CEO of Terranova Instruments Group in 2017 after guiding the merger of multiple instrumentation companies under one name, and CEO of Tecnomatic Flow Elements from 2022. Experience spans process instrumentation measurement and applications, M&A and international business development. Doctor in management and industrial engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, with a Certificate of Business Development from Bocconi University.
Ioannis Kissandrakis — Startup Deputy
Sixteen years with the Pieralisi Group, initially as development manager for the industrial division in Greece and Bulgaria, then as exclusive distributor for the group's industrial sector in Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. Previously global product manager for drying systems and global process manager for animal fat. BSc (Hons) in Economics and Commerce from University D'Annunzio, Italy.
Reza Bostanchi — Trading and Sales Deputy
Product manager at INVENT Umwelt- und Verfahrenstechnik AG in 2002; exclusive representative and project manager for TIA GmbH from 2003 to 2012 in EPC and sale of water and wastewater treatment plants; responsible for marketing and sales across Asia at Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG from 2013 to 2019, managing subsidiaries in Iran and Dubai; plant construction manager and international sales manager at Biogest AG since 2020.
Where we are
Locations
Glorinda's corporate headquarters is in Wiesbaden, Germany, twenty minutes from Frankfurt Airport and inside one of Europe's densest industrial and logistics regions.
Around it we have built a business network that allows a diversified presence and prompt, high-quality service tailored to local requirements. In addition to the German headquarters, we have established branches across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the CIS, and a sales office in the Netherlands serving northern Europe.
Our priority markets, in order, are Europe, the CIS, MENA and South America.
Assurance
Certifications
Glorinda operates under an Integrated Management System and is certified to ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environment) and ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety).
The certified scope covers providing engineering services, equipment and spare parts procurement, construction management, installation, commissioning, operating, troubleshooting and maintenance for oil, gas, petrochemical, water and wastewater treatment, energy and environmental projects.
Certificates are available on request.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Glorinda a manufacturer or an engineering company?
Both, in a specific sense. We are the brand owner and technical authority for products made by qualified OEM partners, and we are an engineering organisation that designs, integrates and commissions process plants. We do not operate our own factories, and we do not self-perform civil construction.
What industries do you serve?
Environment (water, wastewater, sludge, waste), energy (renewables, waste-to-energy, thermal, storage), oil and gas (midstream and downstream), and food and pharmaceutical. Within those we work with water utilities, power generators, refineries and petrochemical complexes, chemical and fertilizer plants, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and biotech, mining and steel, textile, pulp and paper, electronics, agriculture, municipalities, EPC contractors and industrial startups.
Where do you operate?
Head office in Wiesbaden, Germany, with branches across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the CIS, and a sales office in the Netherlands. Priority markets are Europe, the CIS, MENA and South America.
Are you certified?
Yes — ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 under an Integrated Management System, with a scope covering engineering services, procurement, construction management, installation, commissioning, operating, troubleshooting and maintenance for oil, gas, petrochemical, water and wastewater, energy and environmental projects.
Have you built similar projects?
Our analyzer systems business holds a substantial published reference list. For process and water scopes, reference projects are being cleared for publication with the clients concerned — ask us for the ones relevant to your sector and region and we will share what has been released.
Contact
Work with us
Whether you are buying a package, hiring an engineer, looking for an OEM partner or financing a plant — the conversation starts the same way.