Hatch Ltd.

Type	Employee-owned corporation
Founded	as W.S. Atkins & Associates (1955) as Hatch (1962)
Headquarters	headquarters: Mississauga, Ontario
Key people	Mr. Kurt Strobele (Chairman, Chief Executive Officer)
Industry	Engineering and management consultancy
Revenue	$1,400,000,000 CAD (2009)
Employees	8000 (2009)
Website	The Hatch Group website

Hatch is a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. Its group companies have more than 8,000 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 Inco (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 hub offices are in the following countries: Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Chile, Brazil, China. They also have various smaller offices around the globe.

[edit] Main business areas

Non-ferrous (base) metals – nickel, copper, zinc, gold, platinum
Light metals – aluminum and magnesium
Iron & Steel – iron making, steel making, rolling and finishing
Industrial minerals – titania slag, coal, 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, rail, ports
Technologies - custom designed equipment and technology including autoclave for extractive metallurgy, coilbox for steel rolling, electric furnace, fluidized bed, non-destructive testing

[edit] External links

• The Hatch Group website

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