McMenon announces manufacturing first in Saudi Arabia
McMenon Engineering Services has launched the first British manufacturing facility of flow and temperature instrumentation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Cumbrian-based business, which has a 70-year engineering heritage, has formally opened the centre of excellence in Dammam to support growth opportunities in Saudi Arabia other parts of the Middle East and additional international markets.
The Department for International Trade (DIT), a UK government organisation that promotes British trade across the world, played a key supporting role the new venture which meets the criteria for IKTVA (In Kingdom Total Value Add), a Saudi Aramco created programme designed to drive localised supply chain efficiency and add value to operations in Saudi Arabia
The facility is a joint venture with GulfTek Arabia and will complement McMenon’s existing site in Workington, UK, which employs 70 people.
Anand Puthran, CEO at McMenon, said: “The centre of excellence in Saudi Arabia is a game-changing development for us. Our facilities will support each other as we seek to achieve further growth in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East. I wholeheartedly recommend that other UK firms work with the DIT to look at partnership opportunities which can, in turn, contribute to the UK economy.”
Simon Penney, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, said: “Saudi Arabia holds many opportunities for UK business, and I am delighted that McMenon, in a local joint venture partnership with GulfTek Arabia, has become the first British manufacturer of flow and temperature instrumentation in the country.”
McMenon specialises in the design and manufacture of differential pressure flow meters such as orifice plates, averaging pitot tubes, wedge meters, nozzles, Venturi meters (topside and subsea) as well as variable area flow meters and temperature monitoring equipment. s.
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