A Dammam-based company that supplies epoxy coated steel bars is currently busy implementing contracts for Dammam bridges and tunnels and the Jubail export refinery.
Rezayat Protective Coating Company Ltd, also known as Rezayat Procoat, began fulfilling the bridges and tunnels orders in mid-2009 and will complete them by the middle of next year while supplies on the order for the refinery started at the beginning of this year and should be completed by mid-2011, its general manager Riyadh Saleh Al Homoud said.
Recently, Rezayat Procoat completed supplying for Saudi Kayan in Jubail and North Park Bridge in Dhahran. A major contract completed within the past two years was the Water Tower at Khobar Corniche Road.
Rezayat Procoat is fully owned by the Rezayat-Alireza Group of Companies and specialises in the production of fusion bonded epoxy coated rebars (FBECRs) widely used in the construction industry.
Al Homoud states that one of FBECRs’ main advantages is that the powder film coat eliminates contact between the bars and corrosion agents such as moisture, chlorides and industrial chemicals.
The plant is located in Dammam’s second industrial city and current production capacity is 100,000 tonnes. There are facilities to cut and bend coated steel bars to specifications contained in structural drawings.
The bars are coated according to the ASTM A 775 standard. The deformed bars, on which the application is made, are cut in lengths of 12 m and diameters of 8 mm to 40 mm and branded as ASTM A615 Grade 60.
The company’s FBECRs have the approval of such large entities as Saudi Aramco, Sabic, the Saline Water Conversion Company, the Saudi Electric Company and the Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu.
Rezayat Procoat’s material has gone into the construction of Sabic’s headquarters in Riyadh, the Ras Tanura Refinery (upgrade), the Saudi Steel Pipe expansion and the Aramco substation in Ras Tanura.
Other major projects for which the company supplied are the Ghazlan Power Plant, the Yanbu Desalination Plant, the Yanbu PTA Aromatics Plant, the Dhahran International Exhibition Centre, the Shaybah oilfield infrastructure and pipeline, the Kemya linear low density polyethylene plant in Jubail and the Ministry of Defence building in Riyadh.
This year expectations are that some 55,000 tonnes of coated rebars will be sold from the company’s production against 50,000 tonnes in 2009 and 60,000 tonnes in 2008.
