Ostermeier Fze has developed from making garbage chutes to becoming a fully-fledged, technologically advanced stainless steel engineering company.
Set up in 1994 at the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Ostermeier (originally Ostermeier Gmbh) first made garbage chutes in a small facility. Today, it has greatly expanded its operations in that sphere and through diversification, it serves a wide variety of markets including building construction, hospitality, oil and gas and power, providing them with stainless steel products and fabrication.
In 1995 Ostermeier Gmbh sold the Ostermeier Gmbh’s Jebel Ali Free Zone licence to MN Khory. Thereafter Ostermier Fze has been operating independently from the free zone as a sister concern of the diversified Majid Bukatatra group of companies.
“Ostermeier Fze’s unique value proposition is that it offers definite advantages over imported products, “ said business development manager Jogi Abraham. The company has the leading share of the garbage chute market in Dubai, according to Abraham.
“Ostermeier grew 10 to 20 per cent in the startup years and then took a big leap of 35 per cent in 2002. The first-half 2003 sales growth has been an impressive 30 per cent and still climbing,” he said in late November.
JJ Jalal, who heads the garbage chute operations, maintained that the company’s core expertise in environmental solutions had greatly enhanced its market leadership.
“We have completed more than 700 projects this year, within and outside the GCC. We have supplied prestigious buildings such as the Dubai Marina towers of Emaar, the Fujairah Chamber of Commerce and Industry and most recently Al Murooj complex in Dubai,” said Jalal.
With market demand for waste disposal and reduction equipment increasing, the company has tied up with number of leading European and American brands of incinerators for medical and other waste; shredders for material including food, plastic, metal and rubber; self-compacting containers for wet and dry food and other waste and balers for cardboard and metal scrap.
After starting the manufacture of stainless steel products for the building construction industry, there has been a considerable horizontal expansion in the market with Ostermeier offering the client base a portfolio of more than 50 home-grown products and services to choose from,” said Abraham.
The company has expanded with products such as roof access covers in aluminium or stainless steel, water tanks/ inspection covers, manhole covers of SS/MS in various configurations including solid top, recessed, paviour and thin rim. The thin rim type is of particular interest for interior applications where only a nominal rim of stainless steel or brass edge will be visible at the floor level.
