44 February 2016 - Business View Caribbean
Kennicon Engineering Limited
A certified success
Kennicon Engineering Limited (KEL), located in Mara-
bella, Trinidad, is a premier provider of mechanical
engineering and fabrication services for its indus-
trial customers in Trinidad/Tobago and several other
countries in the Caribbean region, including St. Kitts,
Dominica, Barbados, and Grenada. The company was
founded 32 years ago by Nazamudin Mohamed and
Mr. Kenneth Salick, both of whom serve as Managing
Directors. The two partners had come from the Caroni
Limited Sugarcane Company after it shut down opera-
tions. “I was a sugar boiler there and he was a senior
welder,” says Mohamed. The pair first began a small,
two-man burglar-proofing manufacturing business in
1982. “Then we got together and we established our-
selves as Kennicon Engineering, Limited.”
Today, KEL employs about 70 workers in various trades
– welders, pipe fitters, tank builders, machinists, etc.
- in its 65,000 square foot fabrication/machine shop
on the outskirts of the Point-a-Pierre oil refinery, near
the Point Lisas Industrial Estate. KEL is a specialty,
heavy-metal fabricator. Some of its services include:
Complete Factory Installation; Machinery Repairs; In-
dustrial Machining; Parts Manufacture - Gears, Shafts,
etc.; Specialized Fabrication - Including Sheet Metal
Work, Conveyors, Ducting, Coils, Cyclones, Silos, etc.;
Industrial Tank Construction and Installation; Structur-
al Steel Works Erection, Installation, Piping, etc.; Civil
