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the acquisition of equipment for the business. The
company was handed over to CIACS Ltd. in 1997 and,
in 2011, Ali’s youngest son, Jody, acquired full owner-
ship. After 25 years of expansion, diversification and
the formation of strategic alliances with both local and
foreign enterprises, the company is based at Claxton
Bay, Trinidad.
In addition to its core business of catalyst change-out
and inert entry services, CIACS offers a full range of
services to the petrochemical and oilfield industries.
It has successfully executed projects in both onshore
and offshore environments, both locally and interna-
tionally, with an objective to provide customers with
prompt, reliable and efficient services that are of the
highest quality.
Major services now offered include disposal of spent
catalyst, vacuuming using industrial vacuum units,
vibration screening, inert inspection and sampling,
catalyst unloading, catalyst loading, catalyst packing,
disposal of hazardous chemical and lab waste, life
support equipment, inert welding and repairs, con-
fined space training & certification, containerized of-
fices – rental and sales, confined space rescue sup-
ply, offshore vessel vacuuming and endoscope video
inspection and recording.
Specialty services available include pre-commission-
ing of reactors and vessels, services in inert, hot and
toxic atmospheres, unloading and loading of catalyst
under inert or normal atmospheres, vertical/hori-
zontal dense phase loading, innovative purpose built
equipment ensuring low catalyst attrition rate, catalyst
sampling, screening, density grading and oxidization,
vacuum unloading with closed loop nitrogen re-circu-
lation, catalyst transportation, storage and contain-
ment, catalyst loading of reactors using DENSICAT and
UOP dense loading and conventional techniques, tu-
bular reformer loadings using UNIDENSE loading and
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