Gulf Construction Online - Hygood has good business in Mideast

Fire Protection

Hygood has good business in Mideast

01 MARCH 2001

A recent increase in business throughout the region has resulted in the Middle East becoming one of the key export territories for British fire protection manufacturing company, Hygood.

The latest order announcements are for projects in Bahrain, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They cover a broad range of applications in the healthcare and defence, financial services and banking, telecommunications and broadcasting sectors.

Telecommunications continues to be a sector where Hygood enjoys considerable international success. These latest orders follow the announcement early last year that the company's FM-200 gaseous system is now safeguarding major GSM (global systems mobile) switching centres throughout Turkey for Turkcell - the country's leading cellular telephone operator, which has over six million subscribers.

To this business Hygood has, added Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) in Abu Dhabi, where FM-200 has been installed in 268 sub-shelters for the company's GSM network, along with 11 expandable shelters, 64 modular expandable shelters and two exchanges.

It has also added Etisalat in Dubai, Palestine Telecommunications on the West Bank and Saudi Electric Company (SEC) in Saudi Arabia.

In the financial sector, orders have come from the Bahrain Monetary Agency, the Qatar Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance's departments in 12 of Iran's major cities.

Other Iranian projects have included the Tehran Traffic Control Centre, the Tehran Cardiovascular Hospital, a dozen radio stations and translation rooms for Iranian Broadcasting.

Hygood currently exports in excess of 60 percent of the output of its two UK manufacturing facilities. The company has a worldwide network of authorised distributors and installers, plus it has an extensive presence on the Internet.