Expertise gained over two decades has helped ensure Dammam-based Zamil Steel’s structural steel division (SSD) continues to be a leader in its home market of Saudi Arabia and the surrounding region.

SSD has bagged top-profile contracts in a range of sectors and retained the trust of contractors and builders.
Many large plants producing power and desalinated water, petrochemicals, gas and oil, cement and steel have benefited from SSD’s structural steel and plate work as also high-rise buildings and industrial and commercial complexes. 

SSD has developed rare expertise in a wide spectrum of fields:  structural steel building, equipment support structures, process structures, pipe racks, air and gas ducting, stacks and chimneys, built-up girders and columns and hire-rise buildings.

Within a complex of 211,620 sq m, SSD, whose broad areas of specialisation are structural steel and plate work, has built state-of-the-art facilities with capability to produce 84,000 tonnes of product annually.

“SSD utilises the latest engineering software for detailing and connection design and state-of-the-art computer numerical coded (CNC) equipment for fabrication. The latest radio frequency (RF) bar coding system is used for fabricated material tracking, control and shipping,” says a spokesman of the division.

“SSD quality management systems are in conformance with the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 and SSD has also attained ISO 14001: 2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 health, safety and environment certifications which resulted in the improvement of process efficiencies, safety of the workforce and response to the environment and community,” he says.

“Furthermore, SSD is proud to be the first company in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East meeting the quality certification requirements for the Standard for Steel Building structures outlined by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).”

Some major projects

The Structural Steel Division has implemented numerous major projects over the years (overseas locations mentioned in brackets). Oil and gas contracts it completed include the following plants: Khursaniyah Gas; Hawiyah Gas; Qatar Gas II (Qatar); Hawiyah NGL, and Pearl GTL Effluent Treatment (Qatar) as well as the Habshan Gas Complex (UAE) and the Ras Tanura Refinery Diesel Hydrometer Project.

In petrochemicals, SSD made supplies to the following projects, among others: Yanpet Expansion; Jubail United Ethylene Glycol; OL2 Ethylene (Kuwait); N-Paraffin and Lab Plant; GSY Anti-Oxidant; Petrokemya Furnace.

Building projects it supplied to included the North Park Office Complex of Saudi Aramco, Al Yaum Printing Press and a Toyota showroom (Vietnam). Among high-rise projects were Al Awqaf Towers (Qatar), Al Zamil House project, Al Zamil Tower (Bahrain) and Madinah Hilton.

In other fields, the division was involved with the Maaden phosphate project; the Sae Sadelmi Power Station 3, Potline 5 and Potline 4 (all three at Alba, Bahrain) and Sadaf Co-generation project.

The Structural Steel Division is one of six divisions of Zamil Steel, the others being Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEB), Towers and Galvanising, Process Equipment,  Canam Asia and Building Component Solutions.