Kennicon Engineering Ltd

Business View Caribbean 7 KEL is the fourth company in Trinidad and Tobago to achieve STOW certification and the first to achieve 100 percent compliance. Today, getting that work in Trinidad’s energy sector has been more challenging, due to the reduction in the size of the island’s oil industry. A company that fabricates large field and other oil tanks, and does contract work for drilling firms, is, naturally, going to feel the effects of a shrinking sector. “About 25 years ago, we had 100 employees,” Mohamed relates. “Right now we have about 70. Our bread and butter are the smaller works that come in over the counter to our industrial machine shop.” And yet, according to Mohamed, Kennicon has man- aged to stay in business and hold its market share because it developed itself from the inside/out. “In- stead of putting people on the road to market us, we developed our quality, we developed our delivery, and so on,” he states. The company also paid careful at- tention to the development of its customer base over the past many years. Summing up, Mohamed says, “If you have a customer base that supplies you with con- tinuous work, even when there is a downturn, you will have work to do.” PREFERRED VENDORS Createx SystemWorks Ltd. - Createx System Works Ltd. provides security services for its customers in Trinidad and Tobago through its Panda Security prod- ucts, which help protect its customers’ documents and confidential data against threats such as computer vi- ruses and identity theft. The company also provides preventative maintenance services to ensure compa- nies function efficiently and effectively. – www.createx- inc.com