Industrial and Naval Construction Company

SCIN — the Société de Construction Industrielle et Navale (Industrial and Naval Construction Company) — is a Tunisian industrial and shipbuilding firm founded in 1930 and headquartered at the port of Sfax. It describes itself as the leader in Tunisia in naval construction and boilermaking (chaudronnerie), combining engineering, fabrication, construction and on-site assembly into turnkey offerings for its clients. The company operates two main lines of business. Its naval construction activity serves civil, military and fishing-sector clients, providing end-to-end shipbuilding from design through a specialised engineering office to construction and commissioning. Its industrial construction activity centres on boilermaking and metalwork, delivering complete solutions — studies, manufacturing, construction and assembly — for projects of varying complexity and technical demand, including stainless-steel industrial fabrication. SCIN's site at Sfax covers a total area of 20,000 m², of which 7,000 m² are covered workshops. These include a cutting and shaping workshop, two industrial-construction boilermaking workshops, a stainless-steel industrial construction workshop, two naval construction workshops, a painting workshop and a store. The workshops are equipped with overhead cranes of various capacities and CNC cutting machines, and the company maintains a fleet of vehicles and heavy equipment for large workshop and site projects. Its location in the port of Sfax gives it direct access to the main industrial zones of the Mediterranean. The company positions itself around values of efficiency, agility and responsiveness, presenting itself as able to meet the demands of even its most complex clients by diversifying its sectors of activity and acquiring new techniques and know-how. It continues to operate under the SCIN name and maintains a public web presence at scin.tn.

SCIN was founded in 1930, according to its own corporate history, and has since developed into a Tunisian specialist in naval construction and industrial boilermaking. Over the decades it built its expertise by combining what it describes as excellence and responsiveness, diversifying its sectors of activity to acquire new techniques and know-how. The company is based at the port of Sfax, a location that gives it direct access to the principal industrial zones of the Mediterranean. Its site has grown to a total area of 20,000 m², of which 7,000 m² are covered workshops dedicated to cutting and shaping, industrial-construction boilermaking (two workshops), stainless-steel industrial construction, naval construction (two workshops), painting, and storage. The workshops are equipped with overhead cranes of various capacities and CNC cutting machines, supported by a fleet of vehicles and heavy equipment for large workshop and site projects. SCIN's naval construction activity has expanded continuously, serving civil, military and fishing professionals with turnkey shipbuilding that runs from engineering through a specialised design office to construction and commissioning. In parallel, its industrial construction arm has developed around boilermaking, offering complete solutions — studies, manufacturing, construction and assembly — adapted to projects of varying complexity and technical demand. By the 2020s the company continued to present itself as the leader in Tunisia in industrial and naval construction, maintaining its Sfax operations and a public web presence at scin.tn.

• 1930

  SCIN founded in Tunisia.

• Company based at the port of Sfax, with site expanding to 20,000 m² total area including 7,000 m² of covered workshops.

Leader in Tunisia in naval construction and boilermaking, offering turnkey engineering-to-commissioning solutions with efficiency, agility and responsiveness.

• Naval construction (civil, military, fishing vessels)

• Industrial boilermaking and metalwork

• Stainless-steel industrial fabrication

• Turnkey shipbuilding (engineering, construction, commissioning)

• Industrial construction and on-site assembly

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