Oasis Coils, UAE’s largest HVAC Coil Manufacturing Company, opened a dedicated coil coating facility at Dubai Industrial City. For the first time in the UAE, HVAC coils will now be able to be coated in a dip tank as opposed to be sprayed. The facility is a significant investment in the coating of coils and unprecedented in the region.

The facility was inaugurated by Navin Valrani, CEO of Oasis Coils, and Pramodh Idicheria, General Manager of Oasis Coils. “We operate under a highly corrosive environment and there is no replacement for an effective HVAC coil coating. Our commitment to the OEMs will be further enhanced by this investment,” said Navin Valrani, during the opening ceremony.

In the UAE since 1989, Oasis Coils & Coatings, a member of the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, is the largest HVAC distribution and manufacturing company in the region, with 4 offices, 4 manufacturing plants and 9 showrooms across the UAE, Qatar and Oman. Oasis Coils & Coatings's facilities have obtained certifications such as ISO 9001, AHRI (ARI) and various awards in the industry.

Bronz-Glow Technologies, Inc. (St. Augustine, FL) is honored to announce that it has entered into a Certified Application Agreement with Oasis Coils LLC located in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. Oasis Coils is part of the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, one of the largest conglomerates in the UAE employing 5,500 people in its network of business groups.

Oasis Coils & Coatings has 9 Retail Store Locations for the distribution of air conditioning equipment and supplies, which will now also carry Bronz-Glow’s line of DIY products. Oasis Coils will be the primary applicator of Bronz-Glow’s Husky Coil Coat for replacement coils as well as coating new equipment. A new coating facility, currently being established, will service not only residential and smaller unitary equipment, but also air cooled chillers entering the UAE marketplace. Oasis Coils will provide factory coating services, field coating services, coating sales, and coating applications for replacement coils they manufacture. The agreement executed between Bronz-Glow and Oasis Coils will cover Oman, Qatar as well as all the Emirates of the UAE. Bronz-Glow and Oasis Coils will make its presence known to the Middle East at the Big 5 Show later this month.

In 1984 Robert Haydu, inventor and patent holder, developed the Bronz-Glow Process and Bronz-Glow coating system for HVAC/R systems. Following in Bob’s footsteps, Bronz-Glow continues to research and develop new coating materials and application methods today. The company is family run and family owned. Bronz-Glow relocated to Florida in the summer of 1989 following the initial development of this process in Rocky Hill, New Jersey. Today, Bronz-Glow manufactures some of the most effective and economic corrosion protection products in the world.

In the UAE since 1989, Oasis Coils & Coatings is the largest HVAC distribution and manufacturing company in the region, with 4 offices, 4 manufacturing plants and 9 showrooms across the UAE and Qatar. Oasis Coils & Coatings’s facilities have obtained certifications such as ISO 9001, AHRI (ARI) and various awards in the industry.

Oasis Coils & Coatings continued its march to be a global player in the manufacturing of coils with Oasis Coils participating in the Mostra Convengo Exhibition in Milan. The company's exhibition stand impressed several international visitors and Oasis Coils & Coatings was able to build upon its global client base as a result of the show.

In the UAE since 1989, Oasis Coils & Coatings, a part of the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, is the largest HVAC distribution and manufacturing company in the region, with 4 offices, 4 manufacturing plants and 9 showrooms across the UAE and Qatar. Oasis Coils & Coatings's facilities have obtained certifications such as ISO 9001, AHRI (ARI) and various awards in the industry.

Al Shirawi Group has implemented Salesforce.com, one of the leading CRM and Sales Applications in the world. "Salesforce.com will allow us to leverage the sales process and provide faster response times on sales requirements. It will effectively allow us to monitor the sales cycle which is critical in today's environment." said MN Chaturvedi, Director of IT at the Al Shirawi Group.

Salesforce.com's flagship sales application gives businesses the upper hand with their sales data. Extensive training to over 50 Users and the management has been given in various group companies and the system has gone live in record time of 4 weeks including data migration and various customizations for the effective use of information.

Al Shirawi Group has realized that quick support, along with the use of the same language as a sales person's dictionary, is one of the key attributes for a successful life cycle on a CRM tool and therefore the Group has put in place a three level support structure of sales coordinators, systems administrators at thegroup level and finally the customer support at Salesforce.com.

The Group has invested in the product and services and hopes to recover this through improvements in the sales process improvement and bringing in the CRM culture at all levels of the sales staff.

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, presented Al Shirawi Engineering Services’ CEO, Navin Valrani, with the Roads and Transport Authority Award for Sustainable Transport in a glittering ceremony at the Monarch Hotel in Dubai. Al Shirawi Engineering Service Group (ESG) was awarded the 2nd winner prize in the Transport Safety Category.

In order to establish, implement and maintain a system that continuously works to enhance road and transport safety, Al Shirawi Engineering Services Group (ESG) deputed a team of professionals to develop an organisational level campaign called “BEST“ (Better Environment and Safer Transportation System )

When RTA announced transport safety campaign in the second quarter of the year 2008, a steering committee was formed at to get the programme benchmarked with regional best practises.

The objective behind the core group formulation was to work continuously and improve commercial vehicle efficiency, performance level with investment in state of art technology, training, measurement and monitoring accidents and incidents and to reduce them with targets .The implementation process was kicked off with the help of a well defined commercial transport management system procedure generated to give directions to the campaign.

The campaign title “Better Environment and Safer Transportation System” was chosen taking into account the organisational commitment to build an accident free Dubai through improvement of safety standards adopted by commercial vehicles.

Oasis Coils was toasting a quality success last month when it was recommended for ISO9001/2000 certification after four months of intense work.

But the company is not resting on its laurels and this success is only being viewed as a stepping stone to yet more quality awards in the coming months.

Krishna Kumar, Corporate Quality Manager for Oasis Coils, has been leading the way for the ISO quality standards certification, and he said: "It is very good news for us, but we don't stop there."

"We have set our sights on achieving more product specific quality standards and this first award is just a stepping stone towards achieving a total quality package."

Intense work was need to achieve the ISO certification recommendation, including creating procedures and systems for every job carried out by every member of staff. It also required these systems to be aligned so that staff could understand what they had to achieve while at work.

"There were specific and realistic targets set for our employees during certification process and it was important that everybody was on board while these targets were reached," Krishna added.

Now there will be monthly audits to make sure that the quality standards achieved are maintained and if a procedure is found to be flawed in any way, then it will be addressed during the monthly internal audits to make sure continuos quality is achieved.

Krishna said: "We have a vision of providing a flawless service to our customers and this certification is the first step towards that vision.

"All employees have a clear idea of what is needed and with three or four more quality awards in our sight, we hope to achieve total quality for our customers."

The Big 5 exhibition held last month in the World Trade Centre Exhibition Halls was a resounding success for Oasis Coils & Coatings after a change of tactics paid huge dividends.
Oasis Coils & Coatings has been a regular at the Big 5 over the past few years, but this time major changes to its approach led to even greater response from existing and potential clients.

"We decided on an open plan stand this time around, with enough space for people to come inside" said Pramodh Idicheria, Divisional Manager.

"We also had a mezzanine level built where we could hold meetings with customers and suppliers. And, we decided to concentrate on displaying only a few of our products, rather than the whole range."

Oasis Coils & Coatings had a quarter of the stand dedicated to ALP and then concentrated the remainder of their display on just four products - Weicco pipe supports and vibration isolator; Mobius closed cell elastomeric insulation; Twin City fans and blowers and BPS Clima chilled water fan coil units.

Pramodh added: "Most of the major consultants and contractors in the HVAC industry came to our stand, and we had the opportunity to explain to the about the various developments and also about the product range we have."

For Oasis Coils it was the first time they had exhibited, but Paul Williams, General Manager, was delighted with the response.

He said: "We received a number of good leads from Europe, the UK and East Africa and overall we were pleased with the response.

"We also attended the big five-day exhibition IKK in Nuremburg, Germany, were we also received plenty of coverage and prospective leads. Attending these exhibitions is in the line with our policy of targeting European exporters and original equipment manufacturers as potential clients."

Roshan Roy, Manager Oasis Coils & Coatings PID was also pleased with the customer response at the Big 5 exhibition for his section.
He said: "The Big 5 show turned out to be the perfect venue for us to market and promote ALP Technology by plat-forming our products and utilising the prospects to bolster our relationships with clients, customers and consultants."

US Coils has been given the highly prized seal of approval by both the Khalifa Committee [Department of Social Services and Commercial Buildings] and Sheikh Zayed Foundation in Abu Dhabi.

Having met the strict criteria required of preferred suppliers, the door is now open for US Coils to tender for work available from both Government bodies.

The Khalifa Committee is responsible for the management and development of more than 2,000 high-rise rental buildings in the city, while the Sheikh Zayed Foundation [now known as international Capital Trading LLC] holds 50 buildings - including palaces and villas - on its books.

"Being accepted on the list of preferred suppliers for both of these organisations offers great potential for growing our market share in Abu Dhabi," said Paul Williams, General Manager US coils. "That we meet their criteria is testament to the quality of our manufacturing, our reputation for engineering excellence and our commitment to customer service."

It was yet another brilliant performance by the Oasis Coils & Coatings cricket team lead by Navin Valrani to outplay the opponent R Hira Traders.

The match was played at the Zabeel Park and lush green outfield made it a very new and refreshing experience.

The 15 over match was won by Oasis Coils & Coatings with 50 runs for a total of 90 runs scored by the winning team. The event was well organised by R Hira and both teams thoroughly enjoyed every moments of the match

What do you notice when you look at the buses carrying construction workers around the streets of Dubai? Jamie Phares noticed that virtually none of the workers wore eye glasses. Jamie raised the subject with her friend, Navin Valrani, and asked him why this was. Do construction workers have unusually good eyesight? Or was there some other reason? This conversation laid the foundations for the Eye Glass Project, which was to become a major charitable initiative driven by Al Shirawi Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Jamie Phares happens to work with Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s leading sight specialists, supplying vision correction technology to opticians throughout the region.

Navin Valrani was impressed with her concerns, and recognized immediately that proper eye care and correct vision are vital for the welfare of all company employees. The problem was that many workers did not have access to qualified and professional eye care. So, a company-wide initiative was implemented to ensure that Eye Clinicall workers had access to proper sight testing and vision correction.

The company teamed up with Al Jaber Optical to offer all workers free eye testing, and also arranged with Johnson & Johnson to provide spectacles to those who needed them at a heavily subsidized rate. It began with a Notice posted in April 2006 inviting workers to come for a free eye test. That first notice brought 69 enquiries, and resulted in 69 pairs of spectacles being issued! Subsequent rounds have seen a further 200 applicants, of which 173 now have glasses and better vision. The program was an immediate success, and so far more than 250 workers have been enabled to see properly, many of them for the first time! The program is ongoing, and when every member of current workforce has taken up the opportunity, it will be offered to all new recruits as well. Employee welfare is a one of the cornerstones of all Al Shirawi group businesses, and the company’s initiative was prominently featured in 7Days.

What started as a surprise birthday party for the boss has turned into a monthly celebration for the staff at Al Shirawi. Each month, the entire company is invited to a party to celebrate with the staff who have had a birthday that month. "The idea came about in July when we held a surprise party for Navin Valrani, our Executive Director", said Human Resources Manager Ashfaq Kazi.

"Staff don't' usually get an opportunity to meet each other outside the scope of their official work. We decided it would be a nice idea to celebrate the birthdays that take place each month and invite everyone to join the fun."

Each month, Ashfaq sends out an email, inviting staff to meet in the company dining room on the last Wednesday or Thursday of the month. The party starts an hour before the office closes, so the impact on work is minimal.

"We decorate the dining room and provide a cake that is cut by the birthday celebrants, who also receive a card, flowers, and a gift voucher. We provide refreshments and snacks for everyone else," said Ashfaq. "Everyone comes, including the department managers and Mr. Navin.”

"The gatherings are a great opportunity for staff from all eight companies to meet each other in an informal setting, as well as to meet the senior managers."

Staff from around the got together in December 2003 for a relaxing picnic at Dubai's Safa Park.

Over 100 people attended. Games were played and prizes given out to the winners, following which everybody enjoyed a buffet lunch.

"This was a great opportunity for staff, managers and senior management to come together and promote team work in a fun and relaxing way," said V. Ravikumar, Business Development Manager, Al Shirawi.

The get-together was such a success that the next one is already being planned.