Zamil Steel Industries has started trial production at its new factory located at Pune in India’s Maharashtra state.

The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on a total area of 87,000 sq m is capable of producing complete pre-engineered buildings.

Pre-engineered steel buildings are used as factories, warehouses, labour camps, supermarkets and many other industrial and commercial uses.  The facility is already producing and supplying high-end pre-engineered steel buildings to various customers in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Jamshedpur.

The factory is expected to reach its full production capacity in the second half of 2008 when it will have an annual production capacity of three million square meters of pre-engineered steel buildings.

Zamil Steel, a sector business of Zamil Industrial, has also started an advanced engineering centre in Kochi in Kerala state. It also has a large engineering set up at Chennai operating since 1999.

“India is one of our key strategic countries, and this new production facility is an integral part of our investment approach for success in the dynamic and growing Indian marketplace,” said Adnan Al Mansour, president of Zamil Steel. “We consider India is a major market with high growth potential, and in order to better serve the whole country we will divide it into four regions – North, West, South, and East, and this new factory is intended to serve exclusively the Indian market,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service