A maker of sealing products operating within Saudi Arabia’s Zamil Group has reported strong results for 2007.

Technical Seal Co Ltd announced sales of $17.5 million in 2007 against $13 million in the previous year. Around 40 per cent of the sales came from exports. Major overseas destinations are Middle East markets with the company having in place a number of distributors to serve the region.
The company produced 5,000 tonnes of various sealing products in 2007 against 4,300 tonnes in 2006. Technical Seal recently added two extrusion lines and an in-house rubber mixing facility at a cost of $3 million. It introduced a new thermal break product line.
The company supplies to glass and aluminium façade fabricators. It plans to invest for a major expansion in the manufacture of rubber products. According to a spokesman of the company, demand is rising at the rate of 20 per cent annually.
The company makes gaskets for architectural applications and rubber-moulded parts including fromets for anti-vibration. Some of the raw materials are procured from Sabic.
TSCL is also a leading manufacturer of architectural soft PVC and dual hardness PVC profiles in the Middle East and is exporting to most of the GCC, European, African and Asian countries.
“A challenge we are facing is that markets demand high-quality material at a low cost,” a company statement said. The company has to deal with competition from South-east Asian producers.
Technical Seal has been involved with a number of projects in the Gulf including Zamil Towers (Bahrain) and Al Faisaliah Towers and Kingdom Towers (both Saudi Arabia). Its Kuwait projects include the Kuwait Civil Services Commission headquarters and Kuwait Municipality Administration Building.
 The company has had an ISO 9001 quality management system since 1997. Its in-house facility of computerised design and tooling helps in expeditious production of new profiles.
TSCL owns a technology called “Window Testing Laboratory” for windows, doors, curtain walls and continuous facades. “This helps in selecting the right EPDM compound for the right application and achieving excellent design and performance of EPDM profiles,” the statement said.
The TSCL compounds are available in a variety of hardness levels and are compatible with structural silicones. PVC compounds too are available in a variety of hardness levels and colours, it added.
Equipped with machinery from Germany and Italy, the company has one of the most effective extrusion-vulcanisation production facilities in the region. The production capacity of EPDM rubber is more than 500 tonnes per year while capacity exists for producing 1,000 tonnes of PVC per year.