AMMAN – Jordanian laboratory furniture company
Protech was recently selected to manufacture and supply team lockers for the
FIFA
World Cup 2022, which will take place in Qatar.
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Protech was founded in 1993 as a lab furniture
manufacturing company.
According to Protech’s business development
manager, Zaid Abdein, “when we started, no one in the country specialized in
lab furniture… (because) it requires special materials and special designs.”
“Slowly, we started to integrate new
specialized products, like lockers and partitions,” said Abdein. “We now have
several product lines.”
Founder and CEO Hisham Abdein added that
Protech provides its services to hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry, the
educational sector, and the sports and leisure sector.
“We were the first company to introduce such
products into the Jordanian market and are therefore considered leaders in the
region,” he continued.
The manufacturing company has worked on more
than a dozen of Jordan’s
COVID-19 field hospitals. It also exports its products
to 16 countries — the most recent of which is Egypt, where Protech is involved
with major pharmaceutical companies.
“In 2001, we won the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence, which is the highest recognition in the country for any private
sector company … We won this award as the best SME (small or medium enterprise)
in Jordan,” said Zaid.
Citing the team lockers project for the World
Cup, Zaid delved into the company’s journey to the top.
“Each (World Cup) team has a stadium where
they train. They all require team lockers … the project was to supply lockers
to those stadiums. People from all over the world competed for this project,
including well-known international companies from Europe and America,” he said.
“The evaluation process started with a
technical evaluation to (assess) the material quality, design, qualifications,
and history of the company. Based on that, we were selected as one of the top
suppliers.”
FIFA had asked different competing companies
to manufacture the lockers according to a specific design.
“We
actually improved the design that was given to us for the FIFA lockers,” Zaid
told Jordan News.
“We gave them two offers: their own design and
an alternative design with improved aesthetics and functionality, which also
cost about 5 to 10% less. So, it was a better design and a more economical
solution,” he said.
FIFA ended up ditching its own blueprint and choosing
Protech’s modified version.
By the end of the 2021, Protech will have
supplied lockers for about 52 facilities including 27 sports clubs, giving FIFA
enough time to inspect the product before the tournament’s kickoff in 2022.
“We are proud … to win such a project. It
proves that the Jordanian industry can reach high levels in terms of quality
and design and will encourage us to expand in more countries in the future,” said
Hisham .
“This will also encourage other factories in
the country to look for new markets and not depend on the Jordanian market
alone, which is very important,” he added.
“People were happy for us, as a Jordanian company, to
win an international bid.”
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