YUSUF bin Ahmed Kanoo, a family-owned Group of companies, provides technology solutions for today backed up by its long and successful experience in the Middle East region.
Established in 1890 the Group continues to be family-run, with national and multinational management and staff. It has an extensive network of offices and service centres in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Yemen with plans to expand further in the region.
The Kanoo Commercial Group has built an extensive portfolio of industrial product and service solutions operating under the ISO9002 Quality Assurance system and has four main operating divisions:
Oil & Gas
Oilfield supplies and services
Supplies specialist products and services for the oil, gas, petrochemical and related industries.
It adds value for customers by managing integrated services at the manufacturing, refining, maintenance and upgrade phases of each operation. A well developed network of internationally-renowned manufacturers as well as local service centres enable this division to operate as a technical problem solver.
Services include drilling chemicals; offshore and marine products; process engineering equipment; instrumentation and control systems; flow control products and services; environmental protection systems and services; water treatment control and pipeline inspection services.
Chemicals
A comprehensive range of processing chemicals to serve the requirements of petrochemical and other support industries.
Machinery
Represents leading manufacturers of
The division has comprehensive repair and service facilities with a large inventory of spare parts to provide a world class after sales service.
Power and Industrial projects
Power and desalination
Counting among its clients the National Power and Water utilities, this division offers competitive solutions in the areas of fuel oil treatment systems, turbine and compressor blade coatings, turbines and compressor life assessment programmes. Compressor on-line washing systems, expansion joints and bellows, instrumentation and controls, reverse engineering for critical components and a wide range of services to the power as well as water industry.
Its strength has been in its engineering expertise, focus on quality and the vision to serve and delight its customers, retaining them for many years.
Industrial products
Markets a wide range of industrial products, including machine tools, upgrades and retrofits, industrial corrosion products, specialty chemical lubricants and greases, construction tools and accessories, epoxies and resins and plating chemicals. In-house teams consisting of professionals and experts survey and offer customised solutions to suit clients' needs.
Security systems
Provides comprehensive and high quality security systems and services to commercial, industrial, civil defense and related sectors throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
Equipment and services offered range from standard to advanced and sophisticated systems, providing excellent value for money.
Electronic security systems cover CCTV intruder detection access control, alarms and several other specialised state-of-the-art items such as thermal imaging devices which, for example, will enable a firefighter to see clearly in a smoke filled room and locate unconscious fire victims who would not otherwise be visible.
Physical security products include a wide selection of safes, document and data protection cabinets, bank vault doors, fire resistant cabinets, ATM machines, high security locking mechanisms, bullet and blast-resistant glazing and perimeter protection systems.
Of special interest in the company's association with The Fire Safety Engineering College in oman, which the Group represents in Saudi Arabia.
The College provides a variety of courses ranging from two to five days, one and two-year diploma programmes culminating in a Bachelor's Degree in Fire safety Engineering.
It is one of only five such institutions in the world providing a comprehensive range of internationally-recognised professional training in fire safety.
