DANA GROUP’S Dana Steel Processing Industries LLC, under its expansion plan, has announced an investment of 100 million for its New Coil Service Center & Tube Mill project in Emirates Modern Industrial Area Umm-Al-Quwain. This new initiative is to cater to the construction boom of Northern Emirates. This is in addition to its already existing fully automatic coil service center in Al Quoz, Dubai.
DANA Group’s New Coil Service Center CTL machine will have capabilities of handling coils up to max thickness of 18mm and a max width of 2000mm.The maximum coil handling is up to 30 tonne.
With this it will become one of its kinds in the UAE. Its main target segment will be Oil & Gas sector, PEB manufacturing Units, Heavy engineering firms & fabricators.
The project is to be commissioned in two phases; the first phase of the project is the coil slitting facility, which is currently under commissioning at the sprawling 30,000 square meters industrial complex in Emirates Modern Industrial Area UAQ. The slitting line is specially designed for high precision and is fully plc controlled. It has capabilities of handling 0.2mm to 3.5mm and a maximum width of 1600mm in GI, CR & HR coils.
Under the second phase, a High speed, High Precision ERW pipe manufacturing line will be commissioned by end of November 2008.With capabilities of making pipes & hollow sections up to 3 inches, it is intended to cater principally to the scaffolding industry and fabricators.
Dr BS Dana chairman of DANA Group said that "The massive growth potentials of Northern Emirates region, has made it key for DANA Group to expand in that region, in order to serve it’s customers in a more better & efficient manner. This New facility will remarkably increase our Steel handling abilities to up to 15,000 tonnes per month. Our large scale imports of steel products from India, China, Taiwan, Korea, Ukraine, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia and Iran, will then be processed to address varying customer requirements. We endeavor to maintain our position as a reliable & leading supplier of processed steel and foresee a strong growth in the regional steel industry in the coming years."
