STUTTGART, Germany - Coperion Middle East Co., Ltd., Al Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, opened a new facility in the Jubail 2 district with a two day customer event in early February 2018. This new facility, with a footprint of over 1,400 square meters (sq m) including a more than 800 sq m workshop, Coperion Middle East will be able to provide even faster services around its customers’ extrusion and compounding plants. Coperion division president service, Kevin Buchler, inaugurated the new Service Center on the first day in a formal and festive ceremony in the presence of government officials of the Royal Commission, the Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the CEO of Coperion’s parent company Hillenbrand, Inc., representatives of customers and suppliers, employees and Coperion Management Team members.
The facility opening marked the completion of the new construction and the relocation from the old office to the new one. The new facility will provide enough space for a well-equipped workshop for services like die plate, extruder barrel and screw elements overhaul, rotary and diverter valves maintenance and spare parts inventory. With the support of Royal Commission and Coperion Middle East shareholder Mr. Adel Kurdi, Coperion was able to find a new site in the Jubail 2 area. The company moved to the new site already in September 2017.
With a footprint of more than 1,400 sq. m, the new service site will continue to focus on providing service for extrusion and compounding lines, bulk material handling equipment and feeders for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as the entire GCC area. With a workshop of over 800 sq. m, Coperion Middle East is meeting the increasing demand for fast overhaul and maintenance of process-critical parts for local and regional customers.