Business View Caribbean - February 2016 49
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.”
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