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Zamil Steel Industries expands export boundaries to Iceland

Posted: 25 August 2003

Zamil Steel Industries, a global leader in the manufacture of pre-engineered steel buildings and the Middle East’s premier supplier of steel structures, transmission and telecommunications towers, open web steel joists and floor deckings, has added Iceland to its list of international export markets following the recent completion of a 1.2 million Euro contract to supply nine Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings (PEBs) to the north-western European nation.

Zamil Steel Industries’ scope of work in this project included structurally designing the steel buildings to meet Iceland’s environmental climate, local building codes and specifications; detailing and manufacturing the buildings within only five weeks from the date of signing the contract; and then shipping them to the Icelandic port of Reydarf Jordur.

“This undertaking truly demonstrates one of the competitive advantages that we possess in being present globally with multi-source operations, without which we would not have been able to meet our customer’s requirements,” says Ziad Yamak, Zamil Steel Industries’ Area Manager in Athens.

“This project was secured by our sales office in Athens for an important repeat client of ours in Italy to deliver the buildings to an end user in Iceland,” adds Yamak. “In order to accommodate the strict delivery schedule for this 725 metric tonne project, which is approximately 6,000 square metres in area, our operations in Saudi, Egypt and India collaborated closely, each taking part of the work load which would fit into their ongoing busy operations schedules. Since our internal engineering and production systems are so flexible, it didn’t really matter which Zamil Steel Industries operation would do the design, the detailing or the fabrication of the buildings.”

The structural design of the buildings was completed by Zamil Steel Industries’ Engineering Group in Saudi Arabia; detailing work on the buildings was undertaken by Zamil Steel Industries’ Engineering Group in India; and production took place at Zamil Steel Industries’ factories in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Zamil Steel Industries’ engineering and production operations in three countries dovetailed their respective activities to accelerate the delivery cycle time by using Zamil Steel Industries’ internal technology systems.

“These include ‘eZ-Build’ – electronic Zamil Steel Buildings System – a proprietary software solution which enables sales teams around the world to estimate and design buildings and to submit detailed proposals and drawings within hours of receiving client requests; and the Project Information System (PIS), which enables Zamil Steel Industries’ 400 engineers employed in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India as well as in Jordan and Vietnam to remotely share estimating and engineering activities using the world wide web” said Fadi Mujahed, Marketing Manager, Zamil Steel Industries, Pre Engineered Buildings.

The PEB unit is the oldest and largest of four business units at Zamil Steel Industries, which also includes the Structural Steel Unit, which is an acknowledged leader in the fabrication of high rise steel buildings, air and gas ducting and other support structures; the Towers & Galvanising Unit, which produces premium galvanised steel towers for electrical transmission and telecommunications projects and other specialised lattice steel structures; and Canam Asia Limited, a joint venture between Zamil Industrial Investment Company (ZIIC) and Steel Plus Limited, a subsidiary of Canam Manac Group (Canada), which produces open web steel joists and floor decking.

About Zamil Steel Industries
Founded in 1977, Zamil Steel Industries is a global leader in the manufacture of pre-engineered steel buildings and the Middle East’s premier supplier of steel structures, transmission and telecommunications towers, open web steel joists and floor decking.

Products are marketed in more than 70 countries through a network of 50 sales offices, 59 certified builders and 27 agents and distributors. Zamil Steel Industries’ main factories are located in Dammam First and Second Industrial Cities, with additional factories located in Egypt and Vietnam. More than 400 engineers are employed in its engineering departments in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Vietnam and India.

Zamil Steel Industries is one of three sector businesses of Zamil Industrial Investment Company.

About Zamil Industrial Investment Company
Zamil Industrial Investment Company (ZIIC) was founded in 1998, is headquartered in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and employs more than 4,800 people in 50 countries. As an international manufacturing and fabrication group, it provides leading air conditioning, pre-engineered steel buildings, structural steel products, transmission towers, open web joists and decks, and architectural glass processing solutions to meet the requirements of the global construction industry through its three sector businesses: Zamil Air Conditioners (www.zamilac.com), Zamil Steel Industries (www.zamilsteel.com) and Zamil Glass Industries (www.zamilglass.com).

ZIIC exports to more than 70 markets and derives 37 per cent of revenues from outside Saudi Arabia. For the period January – June 2003, net profits after Zakat contributions grew by 25 per cent to SAR 31.3m (US$ 8.3m), while post Zakat earnings per share also grew by 25 per cent to SAR 5.22 ($1.39), up from SAR 4.17 ($1.11) during the same period in 2002.

For the year ended 31 December 2002, profits were SAR 50.8 million (US$ 13.5m) on turnover of SAR 1.4 billion ($ 376m). ZIIC’s shares have been actively traded on the Saudi Equity Market since early 2002. More information can be found at www.ziic.com.

Posted by Richard Price, Editor Pipeline Magazine

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