Business View Caribbean | July 2020

48 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN JULY 2020 Waterworks supports water and wastewater treatment and the distribution/storage of water; and Isratech Energy Solutions provides alternative sources of energy for reducing the carbon footprint. The core of the overall business runs from the Mandeville headquarters – a five-acre site with warehousing, offices, and a large factory. A second location in Montego Bay includes the IJL engineering corps, a retail location, a sales operation, and a wholesale operation. A third location in Kingston is slated for expansion in the not too distance future. According to Benjie, “Jamaica Drip Irrigation is the only manufacturer of drip irrigation in the Caribbean. In that division, we design, install, and maintain irrigation systems, we build high-tech greenhouses for our customers, and we supply all the agricultural inputs that are needed by the industry. In Isratech Waterworks division, we are a large supplier of water infrastructure in the Caribbean. We sell a wide variety of pumps, we manufacture HDPE pipes, and we design, supply, install, and maintain water and wastewater treatment facilities. In our Energy Solutions division, we supply, install, and maintain photovoltaic systems, solar water heaters, solar pumps, and we’ve recently gone into generators.” Jamaica Drip Irrigation and Isratech Waterworks export products and do the building and commissioning of projects throughout the Caribbean. They have either sent equipment to or done an actual project on almost every island in the region. In the past, Jamaica Drip Irrigation was the main source of revenue for IJL, however, with increasing regulations for protecting the environment in the Caribbean, the waterworks division has been growing significantly in the last few years. That division of the company is now the number one revenue producer. Benjie states, “ A lot of the infrastructure in the Caribbean is outdated, which puts us in a very good position to revive and or replace it with newer more sustainable technologies. Our competitive advantage comes from the diversity of our company – we don’t only supply, we