Severfield Rowen Plc and Zamil Steel Industries, a unit of Zamil Industrial Investment Company, of Saudi Arabia, announced the signing of a formal alliance.

The alliance will provide enhanced structural steelwork design, fabrication and erection capability to clients in Saudi Arabia, the wider Middle East and North Africa. The focus of the collaboration will be projects with high engineering content, eg stadiums, high rise buildings, airports, power plants and transport infrastructure.

Severfield Rowen will operate with Zamil in Dammam, where several key Severfield Rowen managers will be located.

Both Severfield Rowen and Zamil are leaders in the field of fabricated structural steelwork and have a history of successfully completing many flagship projects. This alliance will provide further enhanced benefits to clients in the growing markets of the Middle East and North Africa.

Commenting on the alliance, Mr Adnan A Al Mansour, President of Zamil Steel Industries, said “We are very pleased with our new alliance with Severfield-Rowen Plc and believe this will put both companies in a much better position to capture the highly engineered projects which are planned for the region. Through our discussions with Severfield Rowen, we have already built strong relations between our respective management teams and we look forward to good future prospects as a consequence of this alliance.”

Mr Tom Haughey CEO of Severfield Rowen Plc added “Severfield-Rowen Plc has been looking to further expand its activity into the regions of the Middle East and North Africa and we believe our collaboration with Zamil is the perfect vehicle. This will give us excellent opportunities to combine our skills and work together successfully on the many prestigious projects planned in these areas. We very much look forward to a long and rewarding relationship. This alliance is an excellent platform for both companies to realize their growth ambitions.”