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Company Profile
Roofings Group currently
consists of 2 sister companies; Roofings Limited (Steel & Polypipes
divisions) and Roofings Rolling Mills Limited (RRM). 
Roofings
Limited is a
privately owned company located on Entebbe Road in Lubowa Estate, 6 km‘s from
Kampala city centre. Established in 1994 by Chairman Mr. Sikander Lalani, under
license of Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), Roofings commenced operations in
December 1995 with an initial investment of $2 million and a labour force of 60
employees. Today, the investment value has reached $95 million, employment
stands at 950 and with a market share of approximately 42%; Roofings is by far the
leading manufacturer of quality steel and plastic building products in Uganda.
Equipped with
state of the art machinery sourced primarily from Western Europe, North America
and Japan, the company produces a wide range of quality steel products for the construction
industry. Roofings has an installed production capacity of 160,000 tons of cold
formed steel per annum. The company uses high quality raw materials sourced
from Japan and South Africa to manufacture products ranging from steel tubes,
roofing sheets and open profiles to nails, barbed wire, chain link and many
other materials used in the construction sector. Roofings is the single
largest manufacturer of electro−welded tubes in the East and Central African
region.
Roofings strives to be a one stop shop for all your building
materials. To reach this set goal the company has recently ventured into the
manufacturing of PVC, HDPE and PPR plastic pipes and fittings. This $5 million plant uses the most
modern machinery and is operated by a highly qualified team ensuring total quality
realisation. All products are tested and produced in relevance to DIN 8062:1988
and ISO 161/1. For all domestic plumbing, industrial use, water projects,
drainage/sewerage management, irrigation, rain water disposal, waste disposal requirements
Roofings is now able to serve you at its various sales stations.
Roofings Group has
three ‘superstores‘ located in Kampala city centre to suit your every
convenience and the company has a vast ‘authorised dealer‘ network to make Roofings
products easily accessible throughout the country.
Today, Roofings
Ltd exports close to 25% or 30,000 MT of its products to neighbouring
countries; Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi, Tanzania and Southern Sudan. Export sales
have grown from $300,000 in 1997 to $45 million in 2012. The organisation has
been presented with multiple awards in appreciation for this remarkable
progress in attracting foreign exchange for the development of the Ugandan
economy; the Presidential Gold Award for the best exporter of metal products for
five consecutive years (2003−2007), and for the first time the Presidential
Platinum Award for best overall exporter in 2008.
Roofings
limited is the only company in the steel sector in East and Central Africa to
have achieved International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) 9001, ISO
14001 and OHSAS 18001 simultaneously − Quality Management System, Environmental
Management System and Occupational Health and Safety Management System
respectively. By developing these international, highly recognised systematic
approaches, Roofings Group boasts unrivalled professionalism and strong
commitment to the development of society through advanced industrial practices
and conserving the environment. Roofings Ltd. aims to maintain, review and
continuously improve their quality management systems on a process approach.
Roofings Group has recently
completed its ambitious expansion plan by commissioning RRM limited, a UGX 320
billion mega project which is set to change the face of steel manufacturing in
the East African region. This state of the art complex is located in Kampala
industrial business park, Namanve. The complex comprises three production units
which combined will have a production capacity of 250,000 tons per annum,
doubling the group‘s total capacity to produce steel to the tune of 500,000
tons per annum making it the largest in East Africa. Roofings Rolling Mills− Namanve is a sister company of the well
established Roofings Limited in Lubowa. RRM was launched in 2009 with civil
construction having started on Phase 1, which is a wire galvanizing plant.
Since then both Phase 1 and Phase 2 which makes high tensile re−enforcement
bars, have become fully operational. Phase 3 is the largest part of the works
and was commissioned in July 2013. In this plant, RRM has acquired technical
assistance and equity participation from world renowned Yodogawa steel works
(YSW) from Japan. This company has 75 years of experience in the manufacture of
galvanized and color coated coils and has been supplying Roofings Limited
continuously over the years. The success of Roofings Limited is accredited to
the use of world class raw materials, combined with the most modern machinery
and trained man power to achieve the best quality output. Phase 3, through
this joint venture will allow Roofings Group to control the quality upstream in
order to achieve high quality downstream. As RRM will supply these coils to
other sheet forming companies in the region, they are confident to say that the
overall standard of metallic roofing sheets will improve substantially with the
commissioning of this project.
The investment at RRM is $125 million with an installed capacity to produce 250,000 tons per annum. Phase 3,
will be a pickling, cold Rolling, Batch Annealing, Galvanizing and color
coating plant.
PHASE 3
Coil coating complex− BEFORE AND AFTER:
BEFORE
AFTER
The project has been funded
partly through private equity (Roofings Limited) combined with financing from a
consortium of 6 banks, including international Finance Corporation (IFC)
amongst others. As earlier mentioned, Yodogawa Steel Works, A Japanese based
steel manufacturer has also participated with Equity.
We have worked very hard to become the leader in the Steel sector and
it is our pledge to continue to apply professionalism in order to meet the ever
growing requirement and expectation from our customers. Roofings Group will
continue to grow with Uganda and the region, and we take great pride in being
such a strategic partner to strengthen our nation.
The company
feels strongly that it has an important role to play in developing the standard
of living not only for its employees, but for Ugandans as a whole. That is why
the company has hosted several health fairs & donated building materials to
schools and hospitals. Roofings recently started supplying free of charge
oxygen to various hospitals. Within the organisation employees enjoy a safe and
clean workplace, fully subsidised suppers & subsidised healthcare. Roofings
Group is proud to announce that the development of a new social responsibility
initiative is under way. The Forever Forestry initiative is a membership based
project that provides people with the opportunities to learn how to live
sustainable lives, produce unlimited organic resources, and reclaim damaged
landscapes through use of tree planting and techniques which utilize the forces
of nature for the benefit of all life. This site, based in Lubowa will include
example sustainable farming systems and technologies, a diverse tree nursery
for giving out free seedlings, and a presentation and resource centre offering
courses, workshops, and seminars on a wide range of sustainability issues.
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