Company background : DRILLSTAR Industries was founded in 1986, from the determination and know-how of a team specialized in designing and producing oil & gas drilling and fishing equipment. Among our employees, many managers and manufacturing or servicing operators have more than 20 years experience in this field of activity, and speak the same language as the customers do wherever oil and gas are being drilled for.   Diversification : since the early days of the company, DRILLSTAR Industries has successfully applied its core competence to other fields of activity which require comparable levels of quality, reactivity, and competitiveness, such as the aerospace, rail, medical, textile, and paper industries. Moreover, the company now offers a broader range of services, that includes integration capabilities, testing and turnkey supply of complete sets or subsets of industrial equipment.   First-class sub-contracting : the high level of services proposed by DRILLSTAR Industries to its customers, places the company as a high ranking subcontractor, providing comprehensive and often complex services, where the combination of technical know-how and organisation makes a real difference; the human scale of the company enables fast reactivity, a quality highly valued by clients. This strategy, which runs through the whole company, has led to serious investment both material and nonmaterial, and to the pursuit of a mutually beneficial partnership with loyal customers Manufacturing equipment : DRILLSTAR Industries has built up over the years a machine shop particularly capable of handling and machining metal parts, of medium and large sizes, in steel, aluminium, titanium, etc. The current equipment can handle all turning, milling, surface grinding, welding, tool repair operations, etc. Furthermore, DRILLSTAR Industries can call on a network of qualified partners to satisfy any additional needs that the company cannot offer in-house, and for which it ensures the resulting quality assurance.   Quality assurance policy : in addition to recurring customers audits, which contribute to the continuous improvement of the quality assurance plan, DRILLSTAR Industries is certified ISO 9001 version 2008 and EN 9100 version 2003, holds VAM licences, and API 7-1 and API 5CT certifications for the oil industry.    Localisation : DRILLSTAR Industries is located near Pau, in South West France, a hospitable area well-knownb for its local history and its gastronomy but also very active in the industrial fields mentioned above.