With close to 60 years in business and having undergone several diversifications in its products and services range, Alruqee Group has emerged as one of the distinguished Saudi companies in its field.

“Customer satisfaction has been the essence of the success story of Alruqee Group since its humble beginning in the year 1949 as a general trading business,” a company spokesman says.
Its first business diversification came about with the construction boom in Saudi Arabia in 1976. The company entered the fields of building construction and oilfield products.  The second diversification occurred with the industrial boom in the country in 1982 when it set up an industrial supply business in machines, equipment and other material required by the private and the public sectors engaged in the kingdom’s manufacturing sector.  From then on, as the spokesman says, the company “leapfrogged” several stages of growth to become one of the leading industrial business groups in Saudi Arabia. It commanded a sales turnover of SR80 million ($21.4 million)  in 2005, which jumped to SR120 million in 2006 and is projected to cross SR160 Million for 2007.
Alruqee Group comprises the following companies, each serving as independent profit centres:
Alruqee Industrial Marketing Co Ltd: It specialises in portable machines and equipment such as welding machines, cutting machines, environmental filters and pipe and valve machines; industrial consumables such as welding products and special steel in different forms used for operating and maintaining various types of manufacturing industries.
Alruqee Machine Tools Co Ltd: It specialises in capital machinery and stationary equipment such as CNC punching machines, laser cutting machines, bending machines, robotic systems, manufacturing automation systems, machining/milling centres and turning centres among other products used for setting up complete production lines and manufacturing facilities in a wide range of steel products.
Alruqee Oil & Gas Field Supply Co Ltd: The company specialises in serving the requirements of the oil and gasfields sector where Saudi Aramco is the single largest customer. Other customers are engineering contractors of Saudi Aramco projects.  The products and services include chemicals, line pipes, OCTG, instrumentation and laboratory equipment, drilling and workover completion equipment and offshore seismic survey services.
Alruqee Contracting Co Ltd: It specialises in taking on and executing electro-mechanical and engineering sub-contracts in the oil and gas, petrochemical, steel, and cement manufacturing industries for expansion, modification, repair and maintenance, and re-location of existing plant facilities as well as handling manpower service contracts in this field.
Alruqee Technical Services Co Ltd:  It specialises in providing professional support services for installation, commissioning, training, CNC programming and repair and maintenance related to all types of machines, equipment, production lines and manufacturing systems supplied by the group.
Alruqee Real Estate Division:  It is a compact unit comprising management and construction staff for handling the group’s own investments in real estate for commercial renting.
The latest highlights in Alruqee Group’s business achievements are:
• Winning Sabic Hadeed’s trophy for taking part in the mechanical completion of their huge expansion projects. In one of them Alruqee successfully executed a project for SR35 million for new Central Maintenance Workshop facilities which included the supply of many special-purpose machines with huge capacities. The work also included the civil construction of foundations and utilities as well as installation, commissioning, programming and training.
The trophy was presented to Saad S Alikhan, executive director of Alruqee Group, by Mansour Al-Kharboush, vice president of Sabic Shared Services and chairman of the Hadeed Board, and Abdulaziz Al Humaid, president of Hadeed.
• Completion of an electro-mechanical project for SR25 million. It involved dismantling Saudi Aramco’s old Riyadh Refinery 1 purchased in auction by a private investor for re-installation and operation as a business in another country.
• Conclusion of a joint venture agreement with one of the largest private sector companies in China known as Beijing Petrochemical Design Institute (BPDI). The agreement was reached to undertake design and engineering contracts from the local petrochemical industry with the aim of developing and establishing local facilities for EPC contracts in the near future.
• Signing of an MoU with one of the most prominent Chinese companies belonging to the CNOOC Group for undertaking and executing offshore seismic survey contracts.
• The supply, installation and commissioning of some of the first fully automatic production lines with robotic arms having six axes or more. Among them were factories for lighting poles, gas cylinders, and structural steel products in different cities of Saudi Arabia.
• The establishment of a new business unit/profit centre named M-TEK (Machining or Manufacturing Technology Training Centre) to provide professional training for programming and operating the CNC (Computer Numerical Control) software used in machine tools, equipment and production lines supplied by the group.
“With a customer base of 1,500 throughout Saudi Arabia and neighbouring GCC countries, a well-trained and experienced staff strength of 150, a first class network of sales and service centres, showrooms, offices, and warehouses throughout the market, and over 50 world-leading brand manufacturers as business partners, the Alruqee Group is well poised to support and capitalise on the current business boom in the region,” the spokesman says.