Annual Review - This is Hatch 2006 [pdf, 1.88 MB]

President’s Message
President’s message
Each of our industry sectors, metals, energy and infrastructure is poised for continued
growth and expansion to meet the surging demands of Brazil, Russia, India, China and
other rapidly developing and expanding industrial nations.
To help our clients better meet the demands of their own customers’ for better quality,
attention to safety and costs, and reliability of delivery, we’ve been very busy keeping pace
with our clients’ needs to develop new facilities; upgrade technologies and operational processes;
and expand the production capacity of established plants across the globe.
In a busy year, we’ve consistently been able to demonstrate The Hatch Advantage through
the creation of substantial value for our clients at the earliest stages of capital projects. We
ensure that all planning and preliminary engineering are well-executed before commitments
are made for major capital expense of detailed engineering and construction.
We have improved our ability to serve our clients through the development of new delivery
systems, such as the creation of our new Global Project Offices in South Africa and Chile.
They are organized and equipped to undertake assignments on behalf of other Hatch offices
around the world.
Our data and knowledge-management systems were also further upgraded to provide timely
and comprehensive analysis and reporting to our project teams and their clients. Those
improvements have allowed us to streamline our operational and capital-projects procedures
and maintain aggressive schedules and budgets. For our senior managers there was also the
test of finding the best people for the technical, business and leadership requirements of our
clients’ projects, no matter where in the world they are.
In this publication, This is Hatch 2006, you will find some details of a number of representative
projects that we have completed or are working on in each of the metals, energy and
infrastructure sectors around the world. We have also reported on our principal services,
methodologies and technologies, which continue to earn the confidence of our clients.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our clients and staff for their continued confidence
and support.
Kurt Strobele
President and Chief Executive Officer