Anticipating an upswing in the oil and gas and petrochemicals market segments, Inma Steel Fabricators Co Ltd (Inma Steel) has just completed a major expansion of its facilities.

The company reports that its new Heavy Fabrication Bay (120 m long x 24 m wide x 10 m hook height) with state-of-the-art welding equipment and handling facilities became fully operational at the beginning of 2006.
Inma Steel is an ASME-accredited and ISO 9001-2000-certified wholly owned subsidiary of the Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons Group of Companies (Alturki Group), a major industrial conglomerate from Saudi Arabia.
With its manufacturing base in Jubail, Inma Steel is conveniently located to meet the logistical requirements for shipping large and heavy process equipment to its clients within Saudi Arabia and neighboring GCC countries.  The manufacturing facility has state-of-the-art machinery for profile cutting, rolling/forming, and welding among other activities. The facilities are augmented by the dedication and commitment of teams of experienced, qualified and highly skilled teams of 6G code welders, engineers and management staff,” says Marwan Younis, Inma Steel general manager.
“Over the years Inma Steel has acquired extensive experience in the fabrication of custom-built process equipment involving metallurgies such as carbon steel, alloy steel, austenitic/duplex stainless steel, clad steel and other exotic materials such as incolloy, hastelloy, inconel and Alloy 20,” said Younis.
Since its inception, Inma Steel has successfully executed several projects for notable local and international clients, namely Saudi Aramco, Sabic, JGC, Mitsui, Hitachi Zosen, MHI, Technip, LG Construction, Daelim, Foster Wheeler, Bechtel, AMEC-BKW, SNC Lavalin, Snamprogetti, Tecnimont, Techint, McConnell Dowell, Tecnicas Reunidas, Uhde and Worley Parsons to name a few.
 Established way back in th early 1980s as an in-house fabrication shop of an electro-mechanical contracting company within the group, Inma Steel was initially involved with construction-related fabrication activity for the on-going projects at Sabic and Saudi Aramco. In 1994 Inma Steel was spun-off as a separate corporate entity.
Year 1998 witnessed a major transformation and since then the company has executed an impressive list of project orders for many of its prestigious clients in Saudi Arabia and abroad involving the supply of pressure vessels, columns, reactors, heat exchangers, skid-mounted process systems, scrubbers, silencers, flare stacks/flare tips, process tanks, process piping and other custom-built process equipment required by the oil and gas, refineries, petrochemicals, fertiliser, power, water and desalination and other process industries.
Today, Inma Steel is ranked as one of the top fabrication companies based in the Middle East and has earned the goodwill of its clients for achieving excellence in quality and for its ability to successfully execute the most challenging project orders in record times, Younis said.