Mabani Steel, the Ras Al Khaimah-based designer, fabricator and erector of pre-engineered steel buildings (PEBs) and hot rolled steel structures (HRSS), recently achieved a milestone when it shipped 5,200 tonnes of the two products in a month.

This is the company’s highest monthly figure to date which also makes it the third largest PEB supplier in the GCC region.
“We are the fastest growing PEB manufacturer in history as no other PEB company has ever grown its shipments from zero to 5,200 tonnes in just 25 months,” says Muayyad Khudairi, its president.
“We are continuing to grow in view of the current financial crisis. We are currently operating at only two-thirds of our production capacity, which is 6,000 tonnes per month of PEB and 2,000 tonnes per month of HRSS,” he says.
Mabani Steel, which was established in April 2006 and began commercial production in April 2007, is a highly-capitalised PEB and HRSS start-up. The company is equally owned by Al Rajhi Investment Group, one of the largest Saudi groups, and Raed Al Mashal, a prominent businessman from Riyadh.
The executive management, including Khudairi and Ken Krieger, vice-president, has been engaged in the GCC’s PEB industry since 1975 and has contributed to the success of three of the largest PEB manufacturers in the region.
The company has three sales offices in the UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah), three in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar), two in Iraq (Baghdad and Erbil) and one each in Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria. It sells its products through certified builders in Kuwait, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Libya and is continuously expanding its certified builder network throughout Asia and Africa, which it defines as its target market.
Mabani Steel has worked on more than 400 jobs and shipped its products throughout Asia and Africa since April 2007.