Hatch Ltd

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Hatch Ltd.

Type	Employee-owned corporation
Founded	as W.S. Atkins & Associates (1955) as Hatch (1962)
Headquarters	corporate office: Mississauga, Ontario
Industry	Engineering and management consultancy
Revenue	$1,000,000,000 CAD (2006)
Employees	7,200 (2006)
Website	The Hatch Group website The History of Hatch

Hatch is a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. Its group companies have more than 7,200 staff in 80 offices on six continents.

The company was founded in Toronto, Canada, by W.S. Atkins as W.S. Atkins & Associates in 1955, and became Hatch in 1962. 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.

Hatch counts among its metals clients the world's top-20 (by capitalization) mining and metals companies, including Alcan, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, BlueScope Steel, Xstrata (formerly Falconbridge), CVRD 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.