At the Big 5 show, Kuwait-headquartered Fawaz Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Company, which has recently tied up with REMS Tech of Germany, aims to showcase its new German principal’s tools that are designed for the construction industry.
It will also put the spot light on the ZX condensing unit from Emerson Climate Technologies of the US, while promoting its own expertise in the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) sector.
A veteran in the sector with more than 35 years of experience, the company returns to the Big 5 show this year representing a number of its principals including Airflow of the UK, Eliwell of Italy, NSV of South Korea and Nordmann of Switzerland, apart from Emerson Climate Technologies and REMS.
Commenting on the show, marketing engineer at Fawaz’s UAE office Leah C Ambagan says: “At the Big 5 show last year, we were pleased to have a large number of visitors attending our stall and were also successful in clinching some deals. The fact that the show attracts such a large number of visitors has been an important criterion in our decision to participate in the Big 5.”
Fawaz Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Company was established in May 1973 as a electromechanical contracting company in Kuwait under the leadership of founder chairman late Mubarak Abdulaziz Al Hassawi.
Since then, Fawaz has undergone various phases of expansion, diversification and restructuring and developed into a multi-national and successful business enterprise. It has diversified into the field of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, fire fighting and security, electrical, water treatment and building automation.
“Fawaz has developed into a leading organisation in the complete value-chain of project engineering, project contracting, planning and control, installation services, operation and maintenance, manufacturing and trading in the field of electro-mechanical products, system and services,” says a spokesman of the company.
The company has spread across the GCC countries and Yemen and has executed projects in these region as well as in Yemen, Iraq and Jordan for hotels, hospitals, commercial, residential and educational establishments, as well as government organisations as well as palaces.
The UAE accounts for the bulk of its business turnover, hence the firm has a UAE head office located in Sharjah, which is supported by a network of branches in Dubai, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah.
“The UAE offices alone employ a staff of 2,000 and registers an annual turnover of some $40 million accounting for some 70 per cent of the company’s business,” says Ambagan.
“Our business has been growing steadily. Last year, we witnessed a 25 per cent growth in our turnover,” she adds.
Fawaz Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Company has a number of affiliates in the region which include Kuwait Commercial Real Estate Company, Al Aziziya United GTC, Kuwait Japanese Air-Conditioning Company and Kuwait Industrial Centre of Kuwait; Sharjah & Kuwait Manufacturing Company and Sharjah Steel Pipe Manufacturing Company of Sharjah (UAE).
Fawaz will be exhibiting its products at Stand 1D31.
