Trident Plumbers and Astral Industries: Mechanical Services Works and Water Storage Solutions in Kenya

Devshi Kerai, Managing Director of Trident Plumbers Ltd, shares the history of the company, mentioning the creation of water storage solutions manufacturer Astral Industries, as well as current projects.

“This company was established in 1989 by our current Chairman. He started the company with colleagues who are still working here today. I joined in 1995 as a part-time worker for two years. From then, I moved to a managerial post and then the company became a limited company. From there, we decided that we had two partners and were capable of expanding into different segments and growing. We started approaching government projects and big clients in the private sector. We had invested our own funding to grow. We grew very fast, got substantial projects from the government, and we delivered. Gaining that confidence at the government level, we have been given many more projects. Today, we have done three phases in Parliament. The main contract builders change, but we are the same main service contractors. This tells us that we are on the right path and it is something we are proud of. From there, there was no stopping. So, we opened a new company called Astral Industries to support us with water storage solutions. In every project you need water storage. So, we started manufacturing water tanks and today we are among the top five water storage tank manufacturers. We started plastic water tanks in 2011 and steel water tanks in 2007. We then did a project with Kenya Breweries, that has opened a number of other projects for us. We have been given exclusive contracts under the recommendation of the consultant for Standard Chartered Bank hubs. The prices are competent. Once we finished that project, an even bigger one came up. We next got JKI Airport which was a 500-million-shilling project. It was a substantial project for mechanical servicing. We are now development partners with Centum. We sit together and go for tendering purposes and we bring our value engineering proposition to them. Today, we have six ongoing sustainable and high-end housing projects from them, mostly in Mombasa. We are going to start industrial parks soon as well”, says Devshi Kerai.

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