The company is a leading precision engineering manufacturing and service industry provider with state-of-the-art machines and technology set up to cater to the needs of oil, gas, power generation and petrochemical industries in the Middle East region.

Proclad will soon launch its Kuwait and Saudi operations and is set to launch its largest Gulf plant at Techno Park, Dubai.
It is also expanding globally and recently opened a $25 million manufacturing facility in Singapore. The new factory at Jurong Industrial Estate will add to Proclad’s existing capacity and serve the burgeoning Asian, Australian and Chinese markets.
Proclad is a 30-year-old company that began in Scotland and was purchased by Kuwait’s NIG Group. Its first facility in the Gulf opened 10 years ago in Abu Dhabi.
“NIG bought the company because of its strategic move in oil and gas and opened its Abu Dhabi facility in Esnaad’s Musaffah Offshore Supply Base in a purpose-built facility having a wide range of state-of-the-art computerised machinery,” says Proclad Group International chief executive officer Yaseen Jafar. Esnaad is a subsidiary of Adnoc.
Jafar says the expertise of the company lies in providing integrated corrosion-resistance solutions by offering a packaged supply of pipes; fittings, flanges and manufacture of weld overlay pipes from two-inch up to 48-inch pipes.
“Proclad was the first company in the Middle East to offer advanced and automated weld-surfacing products and services,” he continued. “Our products and services are considered to be an added value to clients which are an excellent and cost-effective alternative to extend the service life compared to the current expensive commonly used exotic alloys as corrosion-resistance components.”
The company also provides a full guarantee against its services and manufactured products.
“The Abu Dhabi operations have expanded three-fold. Most of the growth has taken place during the past three years. Over the next five years we hope to grow to twice the size we are now,” Jafar continued. “Proclad is still the only air-conditioned factory in Abu Dhabi in our industry and caters for Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Oman. The staff strength is around 150, including engineers, technicians and designers.”
“The facility specialises in wellhead manufacturing, valve manufacturing, tube sheet drilling for desalination, bonded flat pipes, flat flanges flat fittings. We also have a service centre, which repairs and refurbishes all types of oil and gas-related valves, all well heads (surface and sub-sea), all mud pumps and water desalination and water intake pumps.
Covering a total area of 6,000 sq m, the Abu Dhabi facility comprises four sheds. The main shed is around 2,600 sq m where the main manufacturing activity takes place. The second shed is where we do specialised cladding for pipes. The third shed is for the repair and refurbishment of valves and wellheads, while a fourth shed is used for the storage of raw materials and finished products.
 “In terms of quality our services are possibly the highest not only in the UAE, but also throughout the world, because of the number of quality certifications we have covering a very wide range that very few companies worldwide have under one roof,” he says.
Proclad is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company and has been granted a licence for API 6A and API 7 by the American Petroleum Institute. It is also accredited to use code stamps U, U2 and National Board (R stamp). Its clients include Adnoc, Saudi Aramco, BP, McDermott, Shell, RasGas, Technip, ABB Vetco Gray and Cooper Cameron.
Talking about the new Dh400 million facility under construction in Techno Park, Dubai, Jafar says it covers an area of 500,000 sq ft and will manufacture specialised clad line pipes. Another Dh 400 million will be invested in 2008 for the second phase.
The complex, which will house more than 300 employees including scientists, consultants, engineers and technicians, will include manufacturing faciltities and a professional training academy to impart advanced training to local students to help them evolve into competitive professionals in the oil and gas industry.
Jafar says the company also has a research and development centre focusing on developing innovative technologies relevant to the oil and gas sector. This centre will be linked with Proclad research and development centres in Scotland and Singapore and will be set up in collaboration with leading European and American institutes.
“We have stepped up operations in the Middle East and are currently bidding for a number of projects, which are cumulatively worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” he continued. “The Techno Park facility will handle most of these high-profile projects and effectively serve as the nerve centre for all our future operations.”
Future plans include expanding into North Africa and the CIS countries. The company is studying prospects in Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia, but says Singapore will remain its Far East hub.