Satco marks silver jubilee on Sept 10

BY KEEPING pace with the massive changes and developments in Qatar, which is currently witnessing a major boom in the construction and industrial segments, Satco International has evolved from a makeshift shop to a market leader and trendsetter over the last 25 years, the group’s general manager, M S Bukhari, said.

Bukhari was speaking to Gulf Times on Satco’s success stories of some more than two decades of services in Qatar. The company will celebrate its Silver Jubilee on September 10.

“Our commitment to highest business ethics has earned us enormous trust. We have always intended to build on our position of leadership with trust by dealing with world-class products and providing the best services for our customers. It is with this enormous sense of achievement that we will be celebrating a quarter of a century of supplying growth since the company’s inception,” Bukhari said. Long considered a synonym for roofing contracting in Qatar, the company now has divisions ranging from maintenance and painting to air-conditioning and building materials.

The company’s client-list includes government, international, local trading companies, and semi-government agencies.

“I would attribute whatever we have achieved to destiny. I think it plays an important part in our lives,” added Bukhari, before quoting Rumi in Persian.

A destiny that has turned a small shop with five staff-members and 15 labourers into a company with an employee-base of more than 1,000.

Speaking on Satco’s contribution to Qatar’s construction industry, Bukhari explained that he had travelled extensively from the US to Europe to the Far East in search of innovations and new technologies and has been able to introduce these in the local market.

Citing an example he pointed out that the world-renowned German company Henkel had been absent in this region and Satco was instrumental in bringing it to the market.

“We are also looking at technologies that are energy friendly. As the industrial and commercial businesses expand, what will be required in the forthcoming years is a massive amount of energy. So far, very few people have thought about energy conservation. We, for instance, have introduced a technology that will insulate the walls rather than roofs of offices and residences, thus significantly reducing the latent heat buildup, resulting in less energy consumption,” said Bukhari who holds a post-graduate degree in business.

The company’s primary manifesto is to improve the quality of life of the community it serves. “We only hope to continue to excel in our service to the customers,” he added.

Bukhari, who was ambitious enough to claim that his work could lead to further plans of expanding into other sectors like health and education are being considered as well.

The group general manager applauded the vision of H H The Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and appreciated the company’s chairman Saed Mohamed S A al-Kharaein - without whom the company could not have achieved what they are in the industry today.