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,
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