Storage Shed Expansion at Tricore Surfactants’ Chemical Plant

Chemical plant construction has a discipline all of its own when the plant is already running. For Tricore Surfactants Technologies FZC — part of the prestigious Tristar Group, whose high-performance CABS plant is the first of its kind in the region — Midas built the facility’s closed storage shed expansion (Expansion-1) inside a live, operating surfactants campus in Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, completing the work in 2023.

Project facts

• Client: Tricore Surfactants Technologies FZC (a Tristar Group company)
• Location: Hamriyah Free Zone (Phase 1), Sharjah — plots 2P-01/02 & 2P-06/07
• Midas scope: Proposed Closed Storage Shed (Expansion-1), 1,095 m², ground floor — HFZA-approved
• Campus: 24,986 m² operating surfactants facility (process plants, tank farm, ETP plant, admin and laboratory buildings)
• Completed: 2023
• Midas entities: Building Contracting (civil works) · Metal Industries (shed steel fabrication & erection) · Electromechanical Contracting (fire fighting & fire alarm)

Chemical Plant Construction Inside a Live Facility

Building a 1,095 m² storage shed is routine work — until it sits inside an operating chemical plant. Tricore’s ~25,000 m² campus runs process plants, a tank farm, an effluent treatment plant and laboratory facilities around the construction zone, which turns every stage of the build into a coordination exercise: hot works and crane lifts permitted around hazardous storage, site logistics threaded through a working plant’s traffic, and a programme built so that not a day of production was disrupted.

The shed’s steel structure was fabricated and erected by Midas Metal Industries, with Midas Building Contracting delivering the civil works — from foundations to the HFZA-approved handover of the ground-floor structure.

Fire Fighting Systems by a Civil Defence Approved Contractor

A storage building inside a surfactants plant is a regulated fire-safety environment — Sharjah Civil Defence treats chemical-campus storage with particular scrutiny. The fire fighting and fire alarm systems for the project were designed, installed and commissioned by Midas Electromechanical Contracting, a Sharjah Civil Defence approved fire fighting contractor and the group’s SEWA Grade 1 approved electrical division — keeping the approvals a hazardous-materials environment demands inside the same delivery team as the construction itself.

Planning chemical plant construction or an expansion inside a working facility? Our industrial civil construction and steel fabrication teams deliver exactly this kind of live-environment work — talk to us. Related projects: the Petrochem Global tank farm complex and the Pan Gulf processing facility.