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Khizar Hayat, ASA is an unclaimed FAIR profile listed in Houston with JSAAS Valuation, a website-backed source label, and Machinery & Technical Specialties / Machinery and Equipment specialty language. The official ASA member-details page lists ValuMaven as the business, gives a Houston contact record, and describes more than 18 years of industrial plant, machinery, and equipment valuation and consulting experience across the Middle East, Asia, and North America. The ASA bio names industrial facilities and equipment categories including concrete batching plants, crusher plants, tank farms, crude oil refining units, oil recycling units, precast factories, steel-structure plants, chemical processing, jewelry manufacturing facilities, dairy and edible-oil production, iron and steel plants, molding machinery, packaging and printing, solar module manufacturing, textile spinning, latex manufacturing, and thermal power plants. Treat this as a machinery-and-equipment / industrial-asset profile, not as an antiques, fine-art, jewelry-retail, or household-contents lead despite the audit cluster.
The ASA page also states that Hayat is a registered engineer, an Accredited Senior Appraiser with ASA, and a Fellow Member of the Saudi Authority for Accredited Valuers, and lists fair market value, insurance valuation, financial reporting valuation, liquidation analysis, due diligence, and industrial asset advisory services. The FAIR source site points to Bussma; the ASA profile points to ValuMaven, so current firm and website should be confirmed before relying on the listing.
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