Booth Welsh nets £1.3m Saudi deals

Published on 25/09/2012 02:59

ENGINEERING services firm Booth Welsh has won a pair of contracts in Saudi Arabia worth a total of £1.3 million.

The Ayrshire-based company, which employs about 200 staff, will work with Kindasa Water Services (KWS) and Al Fatah Water & Power (FWP) to design, install and manage new control systems at their plants.

Jeddah-based KWS, which supplies water to industrial users, will be able to increase its output by a third, while FWP will use Booth Welsh’s expertise at a desalination plant at Jubail. Staff from Ayrshire will work with the two companies to get the systems up and running.

Managing director Martin Welsh said: “Despite it being an overseas contract, this work is being kept in Scotland with all the control system panel build being carried out in our premises in Ayrshire.”

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