CIACS | Caribbean Industrial and Agricultural Chemical Services Limited

2 Business View Magazine Our People. Our Strength. CIACS promises safe, proficient professional services on time, every time The entity now known as Caribbean Industrial and Ag- ricultural Chemical Services Limited was founded in 1989 as EWEES G.E. by Ewart Ali, a production man- ager at Yara Trinidad Ltd. Upon his retirement, Ali saw an opportunity to supply catalyst change-out and inert entry services to a growing local petrochemical indus- try which had been getting those services solely from foreign contractors. Ali became the first local entrepreneur to service the niche market. His initial intention was to establish a family business that would be continued by his children. It began un- der the management of Ali, his wife and second eldest son, and started out by supplying manpower servic- es for catalyst removal and re-entry while renting the equipment for the removal of the catalyst from Indus- trial Agricultural and Chemical (IAC) in North Carolina. The EWEES name was changed to Confined Space Workers & Catalyst Handlers Limited (CONSWOSH Ltd.) in 1995 under an equal partnership with IAC for GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTORS