HEAVY STRUCTURAL STEEL FABRICATION

ESC provides heavy structural steel fabrication solutions for infrastructure, marine, industrial, energy, and commercial projects across the Middle East and Africa. Through ESC’s international fabrication network, including fabrication capability in China, we support projects requiring large, complex, and heavy-duty steel structures such as wharf structures, bridge structures, prefabricated steel buildings, tower structures, offshore structures, and industrial steel assemblies.

From steel columns, beams, trusses, pipe racks, conveyor gantries, walkways, platforms, handrails, frames, towers, and mechanical support steel, ESC supplies fabricated steel components designed to meet demanding project requirements.

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Structural Steel Fabrication for Demanding Projects

ESC Steel Structures supports projects around the world with heavy structural steel fabrication services built around quality, reliability, and long-term customer relationships. Rather than focusing only on the lowest bid, ESC works closely with contractors, consultants, developers, and project owners to deliver high-quality fabricated steel products on time and in line with project-specific requirements.

Our fabrication capability covers a wide range of steel structures for infrastructure, marine, heavy industrial, mining, transport, commercial, and energy-related applications.

What We Offer
ESC fabricates and supplies steel structures and components for a wide range of applications, including:

Steel bridge structures
Bailey bridges and temporary bridges
Pre-engineered and prefabricated steel buildings
Offshore and port steel structures
Mining and excavation steel structures
Heavy steel fabrication
Pressure vessel support structures
Steel towers and rail infrastructure components
Material handling structures
Crane and conveyor support structures
Pipe racks and mechanical support steel
Platforms, walkways, stairs, handrails, guards, and grating

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Bridge Structure Fabrication

ESC has a growing track record in the fabrication of bridge structures in accordance with international and project-specific standards. Using CAD tools, advanced machinery, skilled operators, certified quality teams, project management personnel, and calibrated dimensional measurement equipment, ESC supports the delivery of bridge components that meet strict technical and quality expectations.

Our bridge structure capabilities include:

Heavy truss structures
Multiple plate girders
Trapezoidal box girders
Movable bridges such as bascule and swing bridges
Box arch and pipe arch structures
Temporary and modular bridges
Special bridge structures
Bridge bearings and gantry mast components
Steel arches, columns, handrails, stairs, and formworks

Port and Offshore Steel Structures

ESC can provide fabricated steel sets and assemblies for the construction, expansion, and upgrade of port and offshore facilities. These structures complement ESC’s wider piling and marine product range, making ESC a practical partner for projects that require both steel foundation products and fabricated structural components.

Typical port and offshore fabrication includes:

Pipe piling with fabricated components
Shear rings, grouting pipes, lifting eyes, stiffeners, and flange mounting details
Fender and bollard mounting brackets
Spreader beams and handling equipment
Walkways, gangways, catwalks, stairs, grating, and handrails
Reefer racks and mechanical structures
Access components and miscellaneous fabricated steel assemblies

Prefabricated Steel Buildings

Prefabricated steel buildings offer practical advantages compared with conventional construction, especially where faster installation, large open spaces, and structural reliability are important. ESC provides prefabricated steel building solutions for commercial, industrial, agricultural, aviation, automotive, and storage applications.

Typical prefabricated building applications include:

Factories and processing plants
Warehouses and workshops
Offices and industrial buildings
Agricultural buildings, barns, dairies, and storage sheds
Aircraft hangars for planes, jets, and helicopters
Automotive, boat, and vehicle dealership facilities

Prefabricated building systems can offer practical advantages such as column-free layouts for improved workspace efficiency and structural performance against natural forces such as wind and snow.

PORTFOLIO

Bridge Arch Structure

Bridge Girders

Gangways

Heavy Duty Modular Fabrication

Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings

Marine Structures

Floating Pontoons

Capabilities

FABRICATION CAPABILITIES

MACHINING, CUTTING & DRILLING

ESC is capable of machining high quality components of different sizes, materials and specifications. Cutting, bevelling and drilling can also be automated with supreme precision. Utilising state of the art CNC machinery and skilled operators ESC offers:

High Precision CNC lathes turning of pieces up to 2.5 metres length
Flame, Laser & Plasma Cutting of plates up to 150mm thickness
Precision drilling, milling and boring
Plate Shearing machines (up to 6 metre width and 10mm thickness)
Automated edge bevelling for weld preparations

WELDING

Welds are one of the most important features of a steel structure and expert skill, knowledge and experience goes a long way in ensuring structural integrity:

Welding of various materials and special steel grades
AWS qualified weld inspectors
International Standards & Welding Codes: AWS, ASME, API, AS/NZS, CSA, BS, ISO, CEN
Manual, Semi-auto, automated welding
All welding technologies: SAW, MIG/MAG, TIG, FCAW, SMAW, GTAW, MCAW, GMAW
Access to hundreds of qualified and skilled welders
State of the art non destructive testing (NDT) and destructive testing

PIPE PRODUCTION

ESC offers a wide range of pipe manufacturing capabilities for use in steel structures:

Double Submerged Arc Welded Pipe (DSAW - UOE method, JCOE method), Spiral Welded, seamless and more
ASTM, CSA, API, BS EN, ISO standards
Diameters can range from 1 inch (25.4mm) all the way up to 14 feet (4267mm)
Thicknesses - between 2.10mm to 4 in (100mm)
Lengths - all up to 100 metres length for large diameter pipes
Various Steel Grades from S355JOH to X60 for example
In-house hydrostatic pressure testing facilities

PRESS BRAKE FORMING

Utilising a press brake capability which features some of the largest press brakes in the world, ESC can offer a wide range of high quality formed steel components:

Lengths - up to 60' (4 metres)
Up to 20,000mT bending force
Thicknesses up to 1" (25.4mm)
Large range of press brake tooling
Large throat area for a wide range of forming dimensions
Semi-automated material handling for efficient and safe forming

BLASTING, COATING & GALVANIZING

A good quality coating system, whether it be by a protective paint or sacrificial zinc galvanization is important to the aesthetics and durability of a steel structure. ESC offers a wide range of coating system options are available to suit many projects and applications. Another aspect frequently overlooked is the packing system and handling supervision that ESC offers to ensure that your asset arrives to your site with minimal or no coating damage.

A combination of manual and semi-auto application methods for consistent thickness and ability for application in hard-to-access places
Blasting to various surface standards
Various coating options - colours, types
Careful humidity and temperature control
ESC's certified SPCC coating inspectors supervising through the entire preparation and coating process with complete coating reports.

TESTING

Testing at all stages of fabrication is critical in a quality assurance process. All items fabricated by ESC Steel Structures follow a strict Inspection & Test Plan with various hold points to check the components for strength, defects and other important items. ESC offers a full suite and expertise of steel structure testing:

High precision, routinely calibrated and certified dimensional measurement equipment
ISO, OHSAS, EN 1090, ISO 3834 and other company certifications
In-house and external material testing facilities: tensile, impact, chemical, ultrasonic
UT, MT, RT, PT, VT testing for welds (at different percentages depending on application and project requirements). Also special methods such as
AWS, NDT, Coating Certification of ESC QA/QC Inspectors
Close relationships with reputable third party inspectors
Assembly Load Testing, Pressure Testing facilities
Coating Inspection - thickness, defects, adherence

ENGINEERING

ESC's project engineers are from a wide range of backgrounds, including aerospace, mechanical, civil, offshore oil & gas, nuclear, renewables and more. ESC offers clients a dedicated project engineer for every order, who is the focal point for communication and technical queries. This make project management more seamless and hassle-free to the client. We understand the need to interact closely with contractors, design consultants, owners and other project stakeholders.

ESC's engineering support capabilities include: