Harsco Baroom praised for 40% Saudization
Positive comments from chairman and chief executive of Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd
Harsco Baroom Ltd has received positive feedback in response to its “efforts in Saudization”, from Engineer Suleiman Al Barqan, chairman and chief executive of Samref Refinery (Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company Ltd).
The current rate of Saudization stands at 40% across the company; a large proportion of which is young nationals in operations and business development. A scaffolding academy was also recently launched at Yanbu.
Harsco Baroom, which accounced its achievement of ‘green status’ under Saudi Arabia’s Nitaqat programme to encourage and support locals into the private sector.
“We thank the management of Samref Refinery for this honour which crowns the efforts exerted by Harsco Baroom in attracting and recruiting Saudi technicians and gave them opportunity to join technical jobs in various petroleum and chemical industries in the Kingdom,” commented Vince Porter, country manager of Harsco Baroom.
As one of Saudi Arabia’s primary formwork suppliers, the global Harsco Infrastructure business was created when a number of regional specialists were joined together by Harsco in 2010. These included SGB in the UK, Europe and the Middle East;, Hünnebeck in Europe; Patent Construction Systems in North America; and ESCO in Latin America.
The company is part of the Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC) generating revenues in excess of $3bn.
