RIYADH: Gammon Group, a global group of companies with strong presence in emerging markets like the Middle East, Asia and North Africa, is defining excellence as over the years, it has established a formidable portfolio of high-profile projects in the private, commercial and government sectors.

“With our unparalleled engineering and construction expertise, infrastructure assets and management proficiency, we can successfully surmount construction feats of any scope and scale at record time and outstanding value,” said Sheikh Rafik Mohammed, chairman of the Gammon Group.

“At Gammon, our ultimate goal is to deliver a high level of quality to our customers and this includes not only the quality of our built products and service outcomes, but also the way they are delivered including reliability, safety and responsibility,” he said.

He added that Gammon has a set of core values that define the group’s work ethic and guide its workforce in today’s rapidly changing and challenging world.

“These core values are safety, integrity and excellence that define our philosophy called The Gammon Way, which also outlines Gammon’s mission and vision to serve the rich customer base,” added the chairman.

Commenting on the Saudi market, he said that the Kingdom is inviting major international companies to invest in a new industrial city in the Jazan region. “We have signed an agreement with Prince Turki bin Mohammed Nasser, director of international trade at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, to develop and promote investment in Jazan economic and industrial city,” said the chairman.

Notably, Gammon Group has successfully launched this project which is expected to create about 100,000 jobs in the Kingdom. The new projects and factories will bring a capital investment of more than SR10 billion.

“This new industrial city will spur economic growth in Jazan and bring about a facelift for the region,” said Rafik, who is spearheading the campaign to develop a state-of-the-art city with various industries including pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals.

He also said that the main attraction of this project is that if major companies are ready to invest and transfer their technology, the government will pay them 75 percent of their project cost in soft loans for 20 years.

He said that Gammon is developing another business center in Al-Rabigh, which is also an attractive project involving investments to the tune of SR10.9 billion.

Gammon also intends to invest $4.5 billion on thermal projects in India. “We have presented the project to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting in Colombo. The premier has invited us to New Delhi for a detailed discussion on the project,” he said.