Steel and Tube Industries: One of the Largest Manufacturers and Suppliers of Steel Products in East Africa

Nilax Bhatt, Executive Director at Steel and Tube Industries Ltd (STIL), one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of quality steel products in Uganda and East Africa, talks about the company’s main production focus and most popular products.

“Our most popular products are those made from wire rods, things like nails, welded mesh for the reinforcement of concrete, and iron bars made with TMX (Thermax powered) technology. We also make various sections like angle bars, STIL cut bars and high beams. And we are very good on pipes, such as hollow sections. They start from the 6-millimeter size and go up to 100 millimeters. I would say that we are one of the market leaders in these products. They all fall in the downstream, as I explained last time, so now we want to go into the mainstream because there is a vacuum there. Wire coils are coming in as imports from outside the region. For making tubes and pipes, the hot rolled coils are still imported, so we want to go a step back whereby we want to make the coils in the region. That is our short-term objective, to fill the mainstream vacuum”, says Nilax Bhatt.

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