New plant for Baker Hughes

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 11 February 2011 01:14 GMT

Baker Hughes has opened a plant at its Dhahran base in Saudi Arabia to manufacture drill bits.

The plant will supply polycrystalline diamond compact bits to the US company’s clients in the country and the rest of the Middle East.

“After several years of successfully assembling drill bits in Saudi Arabia, we took the next logical step of manufacturing bits from raw materials,” said company vice president Art Soucy.

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