MESC Specialized Cables has announced it has received two major orders for the supply of instrumentation and control cables worth more than $16 million in Saudi Arabia.

The cables are to be used for the Hawiyah NGL Recovery Plant, the order coming from JGC of Japan, and the Khursaniyah Producing Facilities, the order coming from Snamprogetti, Italy.
The Hawiyah plant will process rich pre-treated natural gas from the Haradh and Hawiyah gas plants to recover natural gas liquids. The Khursaniyah facilities will help process the crude oil output from the Abu Hadriyah, Khursaniyah and Fadhili fields. The project is part of the larger Khursaniyah Programme, which will include a 1,000 MMSCFD gas plant.
The Khursaniyah project will add 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day to Saudi Arabia’s production capacity by the end of 2007. The Hawiyah NGL recovery programme will produce an additional 310,000 barrels of ethane and NGL products by 2008, through the Hawiyah plant and an expansion of the Juaymah gas fractionation plant near Ras Tanura.
“MESC Specialized Cables was able to win these orders and compete internationally due to its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and technologies in addition to various expansions carried out to meet the growing demand of the market,” said Fathi Hasan, its general manager for marketing and sales.
“The fresh expansions mean that MESC will increase its production capacity and become one of the biggest manufacturers and suppliers of cables not only in the region but worldwide. It’s today a force to be reckoned with in the world of cables and our immediate plan is to enhance our leadership position in the Gulf and North Africa markets” he said.
“MESC continues to enhance its strategic position within the industry securing major orders both regionally and internationally. It is becoming one of the most active companies worldwide with an increasing presence in many international markets and adherence to high standards of quality and reliability. The company is playing an integral role in the growth and development of Saudi Arabia as an industrial giant.”
Hasan pointed out that MESC had embarked on a significant capacity expansion to pursue its “strategic vision to be present at the heart of every project.”  The company aimed to raise productivity and make quality improvements that would give optimum benefits to customers throughout the region in terms of price and quality. It was also developing capability to meet the most demanding specifications of customers worldwide in order to strengthen its export markets.
MESC has over the past decade witnessed a period of high growth in the global energy market and massive success in the region, according to Said Al Karram, the company’s regional manager.
He was speaking at an event held recently in Abu Dhabi to mark a decade of success for the company in the region.
Started in 1993 as a common local manufacturing company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, MESC slowly started evolving to become an international player, imposing its presence day after day on the international markets as one of the most reputed brand names in the Middle Eastern cable industry, he said.
According to the official, the company today enjoys a 70 per cent market share in Saudi Arabia and has a considerable presence across the GCC.
“Such growth urged us to invest in improving our resources, machinery and final products and to increase our capacity through a number of expansion projects implemented in the plant which now spans an area of 115,000 sq m,” he said.
“Although MESC’s main activities are concentrated in the GCC area and some ME countries, its reputation has actually crossed the frontiers of this region whereby the company today enjoys a presence in more than 11 countries throughout the world and conducts commercial activities there,” the official said.
“MESC has been able to gain the trust of most of the renowned international EPC contractors worldwide due to the high quality of its products and cost-effective, swift and reliable services.  It is able to provide clients with world-class cables within a time span that no other company can offer.”
In addition to MESC’s 40 per cent acquisition of Jordan New Cable Company (JNCC) in Amman, its expansion projects include the manufacturing of high and medium voltage cables.
The next few years, according to Karram, will witness a major diversification of the MESC brand and position the company as the leader in the specialised, instrumentation and control cables industry.
“Its continuous endeavor to maintain its excellent reputation is the principal core value behind its success,” he concluded.