Zamil Steel Indian operations begins trial production
Saturday, 9th February 2008
Zamil Steel Industries, a sector business of Zamil Industrial, announced that the company has started trial production at its new factory in India, which is located in Pune, Maharashtra State.
The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on a total area of 87,000 square meters is capable of producing complete pre-engineered buildings. Pre-engineered steel buildings are used as factories, warehouses, labor camps, supermarkets and many other industrial and commercial uses. The facility is already producing and supplying high-end pre-engineered steel buildings to various customers in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Jamshedpur.
The factory is expected to reach its full production capacity in the second half of 2008 when it will have an annual production capacity of three million square meters of pre-engineered steel buildings.
Zamil Steel has also started an advanced engineering center in Cochin, Kerala State in Southern India, in addition to a large engineering set up at Chennai operating since 1999.
"India is one of our key strategic countries, and this new production facility is an integral part of our investment approach for success in the dynamic and growing Indian marketplace," says Adnan Al Mansour, President of Zamil Steel. "We consider India is a major market with high growth potential, and in order to better serve the whole country we will divide it into four regions - North, West, South, and East, and this new factory is intended to serve exclusively the Indian market," he adds.
Since starting trial production in early December 2007, this factory has already completed and shipped a total of six jobs.
The establishment of Zamil Steel Indian operations was announced during the historic visit of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to India back in January 2006. The declared initial investment was SAR 75 million (USD 20 million).