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MAINTENANCE & ASSET SERVICES

Industry Background & Experience - Services - Service Delivery Model -
Greenfield Project - Global Project Delivery Network - Client Value Proposition -
Business Relationships - Operating Locations - Contact

Industry Background & Experience

Kempe has built an enviable reputation for delivering value-added maintenance services to its clients including sustaining capital and capacity increase works and across such industries as aluminium smelting, mining, timber, pulp and paper and gas processing. With 13 workshops throughout the world, 9 located around Australia, and more than 800 employees, Kempe’s Maintenance Services Division is internationally recognised as a superior specialist service provider.

Kempe is the largest global provider of maintenance services to the aluminium smelting industry. We add value by identifying solutions that reduce operating costs.

We partner with our clients for win-win outcomes.

Our safety management systems in major facilities are third party accredited.

Our management culture has “customer service” embedded in its foundation.

Our capability is broad based in multi-disciplined engineering skills ranging from base trades to hydraulic specialists, electrical and mechanical engineering consulting and turnkey solutions.

Our capability extends to establishing purpose-built maintenance facilities in alliance or strategic partnership with clients where there is little or no local infrastructure to support plant operations.

Services

Our core business is in the delivery of:

• Research and development

• Process improvement engineering (multi-disciplined)

• Planned shutdown maintenance

• Workshop repairs and refurbishment

• Supplementary labour

• Emergency breakdown services

• Spare parts manufacture for repair purposes

• Hydraulic systems asset management

• Hydraulic components procurement (broad-based) and inventory management

• General fabrication and fitting

• Crane supply and rigging services

• Material handling systems maintenance

• Specialist industrial products supply

• Maintenance audits

• Sustaining capital projects

• Increased capacity projects

Service Delivery Model

Our services are delivered seamlessly and include alliances and strategic partnerships with our clients to ensure that all expectations for quality and timeliness are met. We welcome the development of KPIs to measure our performance.

For greenfield and major project retrofit work for the aluminium smelting industry, Kempe deliver their services through an in-house global design, manufacturing and construction network.

Greenfield Project Work & Major Retrofit Delivered through our In-house Global Project Delivery Network  

Kempe Engineering Services (Australia)                                                                             

Wuxi Kempe Mechanical Manufacturing Company – (China)

Kempe Engineering RAK LLC (Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates)

Kempe Engineering (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

In providing our services we strive to identify any inefficiencies and duplications in manpower and materials in order to provide true value.

We have an uncompromising approach to safety. To ensure that work is completed safely, our team leaders conduct daily toolbox meetings/briefings and we conduct Job Safety Assessments (JSA) and Hazard Observations (HAZOBS) on all major tasks.

Client Value Proposition

Kempe’s value proposition to its clients is through its:

• Delivery of world benchmark service outcomes

• Ability to provide broad-based trade and engineering skills

• Proven ability to partner with clients to reduce operating costs

• Large pool of in-house trade and engineering skills

• Ability to provide cost effective spare parts manufacture in combination with reengineering and reduction of

   failure modes

• Process improvement engineering

• Ability to establish purpose built facilities

• Strong safety philosophy and transparent safety management systems

• Cradle to grave service support

• Skills training

• Supplier consolidation

• Root cause analysis & solutions

SAFETY IS NOT COMPROMISED FOR PRODUCTIVITY

Business Relationships

Kempe has been providing engineering and maintenance services to a significant list of “blue-chip” clients for many years including:

• Alcoa Australia (Geelong, Victoria)

• Alcoa Rolled Products (Geelong, Victoria)

• Portland Aluminium (Victoria)

• BHP Billiton, Minerva Gas (Port Campbell, Victoria)

• BHP Billiton, Olympic Dam (South Australia)

• Rio Tinto, Pilbara Iron (Karratha, WA)

• Rio Tinto Aluminium, Bell Bay (Tasmania)

In 2007 the prestigious Pilbara Iron “Supplier of the Year” award was presented to Kempe for excellence in Safety Management and Engineering Innovation.

Kempe was recently nominated for BHP Billiton’s 2007 global safety supplier award.

Contact

Ken Beatty
General Manager, Maintenance Services Division
T: +61 3 5225 2900
E: kenb@kempe.com.au