74 Business View Caribbean - January 2015
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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
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