Epcon Industrial Systems

4 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 EPCON INDUSTR I AL SYSTEMS with Epcon now designing solutions to the problems of today. Developing air pollution control systems, process heating equipment, and heat recovery systems requires a lot of creativity, hard-work, and ingenuity. Innovation is a vital component of all they do at Epcon. Each and every system is custom-designed and engineered for the specific tasks at hand. No two jobs are exactly the same. And, while the projects vary greatly, the quality of their workforce hasn’t changed. Tasha Jamaluddin, Epcon’s Managing Director and daughter of founder/CEO Aziz, shares, “We are a small business that is family run. We have just under 100 employees and we’ve had a lot of great employees that have been with us for 15 years plus. We have eight that have been here over 25 years.” Around 90% of Epcon’s employees are locked in, while only 10% is impacted as companies compete with the oil and gas sectors for qualified welders in the greater Houston area. She notes, “The majority of our fabricating base has been with us a very long time. And so there’s a small fraction of our team composed of young welders coming up that are more transitory. We’ve found some are here for less than a year. They’ll chase a pay raise of a dollar or two but, by and large, it doesn’t really disrupt our workforce. It’s a small percentage because most of our employees, especially on the manufacturing side, have been with us quite a long time.” Tasha Jamaluddin, Epcon Managing Director