Hatch Ltd
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| Type | Employee-owned corporation |
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| Industry | Engineering and management consultancy |
| Founded | as W.S. Atkins & Associates (1955) as Hatch (1962) |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario |
| Key people | Dr. Kurt Strobele (Chairman), Mr. John Bianchini (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Employees | 10,000 (2011) |
| Website | The Hatch Group website |
Hatch is a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. Its group companies have more than 10,000 staff in 65 offices on six continents.
The company was founded in Toronto, Canada, by W.S. Atkins as W.S. Atkins & Associates in 1955. The company initially was involved in subway tunneling and other civil engineering projects, and expanded into metallurgy when Gerry Hatch joined the company in January, 1958. It became known as Hatch in 1962.
Hatch counts among its metals clients the top 20 (as measured by market capitalization) mining and metals companies in the world, including Alcan, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, BlueScope Steel, Xstrata (formerly Falconbridge), Vale (formerly Inco) and Rio Tinto.
In 1996 the company began an expansion program by purchasing several aligned engineering companies including Billiton Engineering (1996), Rescan Mining (1998), BHP Engineering (1999), Kaiser Engineers (2000) and Acres International (2004).
Hatch today provides consulting, operations support, technologies, process design, and project and construction management to clients in three principal sectors: mining and metals; energy; and infrastructure.
The company's main offices are in the following countries: Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Chile, Brazil, Peru and China. They also have various smaller offices around the globe.
[edit] Main business areas
- Non-ferrous (base) metals – nickel, copper, zinc, gold, platinum
- Coal
- Light metals – aluminum and magnesium
- Iron & Steel – iron making, steel making, rolling and finishing
- Industrial minerals – titania slag, diamonds
- Mining & Mineral Processing – planning, design and maintenance consulting
- Energy – hydroelectric power, wind power, alternative energies (ocean, solar, geothermal, etc.), nuclear power, thermal power, oil and gas, and electricity transmission and distribution
- Infrastructure – public: light-rail transit; water; private: power, water, industrial rail, ports and marine terminals
- Technologies – custom designed equipment and technology including autoclave for extractive metallurgy, coilbox for steel rolling, electric furnace, fluidized bed, non-destructive testing
- Oil Shale Processing
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