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Saudi Build 2008

On show … some of the products from the Delta range.

Saudi Build 2008

New brands

01 October 2008

Making its maiden appearance at Saudi Build, Middle East Industrial Technology (Me Teknik) will launch two reputed brands – Delta Electronics of Taiwan and Controls and Switchgear, India – on the Saudi market at the show.

The company will use the Saudi Build to announce its recent tie-up with these two premier international companies. Their products will be showcased at the exhibition and will be available at a promotional price, according to Naseer Albadri, sales manager.
“We will also be introducing cable termination kits and heat-shrink tubing systems from UCIL Synchem, India,” he says.
All products will carry a one-year warranty.
The company will promote Delta Electronics’ wide range of products that include low cost, highly-efficient inverters, PLC (programmable logic controllers), HMI (human-machine interface), temperature controller, encoder, and RTDs. “All the products of this company carry international certifications including UL and CE,” says Albadri.
Me Teknik will also put the spotlight on contactors, overload relays, motor starters, control and signalling devices, motor protection circuit breakers, MCB (miniature circuit breaker), MCCB (moulded case circuit breaker), changeover switches, air circuit breakers, HRC fuses, among others from Controls and Switchgear.
Me Teknik was established two years ago in Khalidia, opposite to First Industrial Area, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with the long-term objective of becoming the industry leader by offering unique problem solving solutions with guaranteed down time of plant and machinery, says Albadri.
“Our aim is to provide the best in products and services to the doorstep of its clients in the Saudi Arabian market,” he adds.
Within a very short period, the company has become the approved vendor for several leading companies and has been associated with the assembly and supply of PLC/VFD automation control panels for their prestigious projects, Albadri says.
This year alone, the company has entered into agency agreements with six companies including Delta Electronics and Controls & Switch Gears. The other four companies include: Biax, Utkal Galvanizers and Ucil Synchem of India along with Galmar Marciniak of Poland.
Biax produces more than 500 different varieties of brass components including cable glands, TRS/wiping/weatherproof glands, PG gland, cable gland kits and accessories, flexible conduits, galvanised iron and stainless steel bare metal conduits, brass adaptors, conduit accessories, copper-bonded earth rods and accessories, earthing systems, earth rods and accessories, air terminals and accessories, junction and test clamps, panel board fittings, overhead line fittings, switches and socket boxes, tinned copper terminals, copper mechanical lugs, aluminium mechanical lugs, split bolt connectors, streetlight breakers and fuse type cut-outs.
Utkal Galvanisers is an ISO 9001-certified company, closely associated with the power sector for extra-high-voltage power transmission, right from the concept of design to commissioning. It has all the facilities for fabrication and galvanisation of different types of structures, specialised in the field of power transmission. It also produces conical poles with circular, octagonal or polygonal cross-section up to 12 m long in single piece, which are suitable to be utilised in lighting, power transmission, telecommunication and railway electrification and wind mill etc.
Ucil Synchem manufactures cable jointing kits and termination from 1.1 kV to 33 kV including low and medium-voltage jointing kits, polymeric insulators, cable compounds, mechanical connectors, heat-shrinkable tubings, heat-shrinkable straight joints, cast resin straight joints, heat-shrinkable indoor/outdoor terminations and cast resin branch joints.
Galmar Marciniak offers UL, KEMA and SGS-certified copper-bonded earth rods, earthing/lightning protection products, copper tapes, copper-bonded steel products, clamps and accessories for lightning and over-voltage protection.
Me Teknik’s panel division is specialised in the design, assembly and installation of industrial automation control panels. Within a short span of time, the firm, which is aiming to become the most preferred supplier of automation services to industrial sectors, has become the sub-contractor for many multinational companies and has successfully completed several projects for Sabic (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), Marafiq, Royal Commission, King Saud University, SEC (Saudi Electric Company), among others.
In addition, the company is currently working to get product approvals from SEC and Aramco and is also pursuing bulk supplies to SEC, Albadri says.
Me Teknik’s trading division started with the aim of bringing to the customer doorstep a variety of leading brands in industrial automation components and systems, offering value-added services such as speedy delivery time, highly competitive prices and on-site technical support to enable customers to have less downtime and optimum production.
The company has registered outstanding growth over the past year. “We has already achieved a record growth of 2,000 per cent up until August, when compared to the sales figures for last year and believed that such growth has been possible thanks to investing in our workforce and our policy of employing the best-available talent and retaining them for long,” he says.
As part of its strategy of increasing brand and product awareness, the company also plans to participate at additional exhibitions in the kingdom including Elenex in Riyadh.
Me Teknik will be present at Stand 847 at the Saudi Build.