Steady growth in business over the past couple of years has prompted Petron Emirates Contracting and Manufacturing Company, a Dubai-based fabrication and construction company, to expand geographically, as well add another fabrication unit and increase its workforce to cope with the workload.

Talking about some recently executed/ongoing projects, Petron managing director RS Ambekar says the company has signed a contract with France-based Solios Environnement to build gas treatment and fume treatment plants for the Sohar Aluminium Smelter in Oman.
Petron has been awarded a contract by Alstom Power Centrales, France, to execute a combined cycle captive power plant at Dubai Aluminium Company. The firm is also erecting heat recovery steam generators modules, including the fabrication of stacks, ducts and structures at Sharjah’s Layyah power station and desalination plant extension.
Ambekar says the firm will carry out several projects with Sharjah Cement Factory to build a 10,000-tonne cement storage silo, to construct a packing plant and bulk loading spout with bucket elevator, and to upgrade a kiln from 800 tonnes per day (tpd) to 2,000 tpd.
Petron is also setting up a grinding plant for the National Cement Factory, Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi, following a contract with Austria-based Cement & Mining Technology.
 Ambekar says another major project was upgrading the Dubai-based National Cement Company plant, which involved fabricating and supplying a new pre-heater and shortening the kiln.
“All these works have been carried out in a long shutdown period of about five months,” he adds. “The work was carried out in a running plant with an emphasis on keeping the shutdown period as short as possible.”
Petron is exporting fabricated components, such as heaters, furnaces, coils, stacks, ducts, exhaust gas diffusers to various international clients for projects in Qatar, including the Ras Gas Project and Qatar Gas Project. It has also supplied fabricated components for various projects in the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Active in the Middle East for more than two decades, Petron has three large fabrication units in the Al Quoz Industrial Area and has set up a fourth one in Ras Al Khaimah near Mina Saqr. All four yards are fully equipped with modern CNC machines and equipments.
Petron also owns heavy construction machinery and cranage, including a 300-tonne crane. It has a pool of qualified and experienced engineers, supervisory staff and skilled technicians to carry out fabrication and construction jobs.
With branches in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, Petron has more than 1,400 staff members. The company is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 for project management, design, workshop fabrication, manufacturing pressure vessels and site construction activities.
Petron undertakes the fabrication of light, medium and heavy structures; mild steel and stainless steel plate work and piping and coil of all kinds of steel materials, such as carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel and duplex steel.
The company has fabricated and erected cement plant equipment, heaters, furnaces, tanks, stacks, pressure vessels, ship unloaders, pipes, coils and manifolds for various heavy industries.
Petron also provides construction services comprising civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation services for large industries and has executed major contracts for companies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Nigeria, Algeria, Sri Lanka and Reunion.
The main areas served by Petron include cement and readymix concrete plants, power plants, the aluminium industry including smelter plants, petrochemicals, refineries, oil and gas, fertiliser plants, grain storage facilities, pulses processing plants, flour mills, animal feed mills, edible oil storage facilities and mineral water factories, confectioneries, chemical and resins plants, packaging plants and compost plants.