Established in 1982 as a wholly Saudi-owned subsidiary of Xenel Industries, Hidada has grown through measured expansion to become a leading supplier of steel products to the GCC, Middle East and international markets.
Such growth has mirrored the economic development of Saudi Arabia and has seen the company expand to a total annual fabrication capacity of more than 184,000 tonnes, making it the cornerstone of the steel fabrication industry in the kingdom.
At present, Hidada has six specialised plants in Jeddah Industrial City next to Jeddah Islamic Port and it setting up new facilities in Jeddah and Yanbu. The Jeddah plants offer specialised fabrication and related services which include: design, detailing, fabrication, surface treatment, supply, delivery and erection of structural steelworks for the power generation, water desalination, oil and gas, petrochemical, defence and aviation, seaports, commercial/ high-rise buildings, cement plants, metal smelters industries.
It can execute turnkey jobs on storage tanks – from detailed design as per specification to material supply, installation and pre-commissioning – for power plants, water desalination plants, oil and gas sector, petrochemical, chemical and other industrial plants.
Hidada also specialises in the design, detailing, fabrication, galvanising (hot-dip), supply and delivery of power transmission and telecommunication towers, transmission/distribution and lighting poles. Its other products include gratings, cable support systems, heaters, pressure vessels, air ducts, steel chimneys, boilers, container handling/seaport /EOT cranes and blast-proof doors.
The company’s new plant in Yanbu, spread over 300,000 sq m of waterfront land within the seaport, will produce process equipment.
Hidada has a highly qualified multi-national workforce of over 2,000. It has invested in new technologies by acquiring design/detailing software such as Xsteel, AutoCAD, Bocad and CNC machines. It has carried out complete vertical integration of design engineering, fabrication and treatment facilities offering clients total control through a state-of-the-art, unique monitoring centralised engineering and operation system (CEOS), which allows constant detailed monitoring of a job by a customer from anywhere in the world via the internet. All Hidada’s factories are linked by fibre-optic cable for integrated CEOS operations.
Hidada has adopted a strategy of modernisation and expansion in order to withstand competition from multinational companies entering the Saudi Arabian. It hopes to gain more business as a result of the industrial and construction boom in the petrochemical, oil and gas sectors in the kingdom.
The company is committed to total quality management and it possesses ISO 9001 : 2000 certification for the design, manufacture, painting, galvanising and erection of steel products and storage tanks, ASME (U, U2, PP, S, and A) stamps for the manufacture of pressure vessels, fabrication and assembly of pressure piping, manufacture and assembly of boilers and assembly of power boilers at site; and the National Board authorisation to carry out repairs/alteration and application of R Symbol to boilers and pressure vessels.
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In Saudi Arabia, Hidada has a close relationship with Saudi Aramco and Sabic companies, having worked on many of their prestigious projects. It has also worked with the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) for overhead transmission line towers and distribution/lighting poles.
In 2006, Hidada successfully completed a prestigious turnkey contract for storage tanks at bulk plants in the northwest and southwest of Saudi Arabia for Saudi Aramco. The scope of work covered design, fabrication, supply, erecting, testing and painting of 11 tanks. This project was a part of recently introduced grade 91 and 95 gasoline for the Saudi market. Hidada’s additional scope involved civil works for tank foundation and tie-in works. It is also supplying towers for Saudi Aramco’s first transmission line towers project at Khurais.
As well as being renowned in Saudi Arabia, Hidada’s serves the rest of the GCC and Middle East. The company has also won projects in different parts of the world, including the US, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Spain, Africa and Asia, often against stiff competition, proving that it is a truly world-class operator. Already one of the biggest suppliers of tower material to Libya and Egypt, Hidada’s aim is to become the leading structural steel supplier in Africa, Europe and Americas.
Hidada has world-renowned EPC contractors as its main customers. These include Alstom Power, Bechtel, Balcke Durr, Chiyoda Corp, Fluor Corp, Foster Wheeler, Hamon Thermal, Hyundai Engineering, IHI, MHI, Mitsui Engineering, Siemens, Snamprogetti, Shaw/Stone & Webster, Technip, Tecnicas Reunidas, Uhde, and Voest Alpine.
Projects that Hidada has recently been involved with include the Khurais KUC and KCC Projects, the Qurayyah seawater plant, and Khursaniyah producing facilities for Saudi Aramco; Rabigh PC2 (MEG) unit and Rabigh Refinery expansion for Petro-Rabigh; the Yansab petrochemical complex for Sabic; Zeoforming Mogas storage facility for Safra, Yanbu; the Jamnagar refinery complex at Gujarat for Reliance India; Whiting plant project at Indiana for Praxair USA; 230/380 kV Jubail T/L for SEC (East); 380 kV Shoaiba-2 transmission line towers and 380 kV Jeddah north transmission line towers for SEC (West); Tihama power plant expansion for SEC (South); the Shuqaiq IWPP; the 400 kV Wadi Rabie-Elrwais and Sirte-Agdabia-Benghazi transmission lines towers for GECOL in Libya; telecommunication towers for Orascom in Algeria, Iraqna in Iraq, and Omantel/Oman Mobile in Oman; telecommunication towers and monopoles for Emirates Integrated Telecoms of the UAE; and distribution poles for SEC (West and East).
