Harlequin International: The Premium Fabrication, Engineering and Hydraulic Service Facility in Ghana

Anthony Duffy, Managing Director at Harlequin International Ghana, gives an overview of HIT – the premium fabrication, engineering and hydraulic service facility in Ghana – and discusses upcoming plans in the electrical business.

“HIT was formed in 1998 as a hydraulics business by Barry Williams. He built that business up to be a substantial player in the hydraulics segment here in Ghana, then he branched out into high-end engineering. In 2018, it was bought by Frederick Hesse-Tetteh and his brother Daniel Hesse-Tetteh, and that deal was concluded in 2020. HIT is completely owned by the Tetteh brothers. They are now over the past two or three years since they took full control trying to develop the company into a fully fledged all round engineering services company, providing services to the oil industry and the mining sector, as well as other sectors within the industrial environment, including the agricultural industry, food industry and marine industry. Those are the different kinds of industries that we do service in Ghana. We also service the mining industry in other countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea and Sierra Leone. So work is sent to us, we perform what needs to be done to the piece of equipment sent to us, or the parts sent to us, and then we ship it back to them”, says Anthony Duffy.

“A vast part of our business is fabrication and steel fabrication, either for the mining sector, oil and gas, marine sector, general engineering and hydraulics. Hydraulics is the repair of hydraulic cylinders for the mining equipment and for the crane business here in Ghana. We deal with other hydraulics as well, generally cylinder repair and brush plaiting of the chrome and things like that. There are about three main areas of our business: hydraulics, engineering and fabrication. However, we are moving into the electrical business as well, rewinding motors and general repair of electric motors. We will then be moving on into other areas of the electrical business, including switch gear and so forth”, he adds.

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