Within a short span of five years, Jubail Industrial City-1-based Steel Pioneers Factory (SPF) has established itself as a reliable supplier of quality products in Saudi Arabia. 

SPF was established by Abdullah J Al Ghamdi, a veteran, who has more than 33 years’ experience in the steel industry occupying senior positions in Saudi Arabia. 

The company, which started operations in 2011, has a factory in Jubail 1 which includes state-of-the-art facilities such as fusion bonded epoxy coating line, welded wire mesh line, cold rolling machines, straightening and cutting machines and fully automatic cut and bend machines.

The factory has a total capacity of 20,000 tonnes per month, out of which fusion bonded epoxy coated rebars (FBECR) alone has a capacity of over 9,000 tonnes per month. 

“We produce epoxy-coated rebars of size 8 mm to 32 mm. Also we can do epoxy-coated steel cut and bend and spiral bending,” says a spokesman for SPF. The company’s products include FBECR, welded wire mesh, reinforcement steel bars, plain bars, rebar in coils, wire rod and prefabricated reinforcement steel bars (cut and bend, stirrups) (black steel and epoxy coated).

SPF is an authorised dealer for Sabic supplying reinforcement steel products and also an approved vendor of Saudi Aramco for fusion bonded epoxy coated rebars. 

“Although we supply our quality products all over Saudi Arabia, we are not exporting our products outside the kingdom,” he says. 

An ISO 2001:2008 certified company, SPF’s performance in 2015 was exceptionally good compared to 2014, he says.  During 2015, revenue increased 24 per cent compared to year 2014 even though the price of steel products had come down by 25 per cent.

“In 2016, despite the difficult conditions, we are expecting a 20 per cent increase in revenue and sales tonnage,” he adds.