ALDREES Industrial and Trading Company (Alitco), a group of companies catering to the construction industry in Saudi Arabia since 1978, has introduced new hollow metal doors and frames under the Steel Tech Doors and Frames brand name.
The development of Steel Tech products is based on the Alitco’s years of experience in customised doors, frames and hardware that have been supplied to numerous prestigious projects throughout Saudi Arabia.
All products of the brand will be manufactured at Alitco’s new factory, which was established last year in Riyadh’s Third Industrial Area over an area of 10,500 sq m. The facility has a capacity to produce 10,000 sets of door and frames per month.
The company also offers highly sophisticated bullet-resistant or full-flush doors, which are designed to provide a high level of protection from bullets for applications such as banks, lockers, government buildings, embassies and other high-security buildings. They have interlocked and hairline seams that are welded on the inside vertical edges along the full height of the doors.
The company, which previously operated as a division of Mohammed Saad Aldrees and Sons Company, started out in 1978 as a major importer of finishing materials from the US, supplying superior-quality hollow metal doors and frames from brands such as Fenestra and Ceco doors to several prestigious projects throughout Saudi Arabia.
“Ever since its inception, the company has offered the construction industry the best in hollow metal doors and frames,” says a spokesman for Alitco.
In 2003, it launched into manufacture with its own Steel Tech brand of hollow metal doors and frames which are produced at its factory in Riyadh. Today, the company offers more than a dozen types of metal doors and has adopted the ISO 9001 quality management system in the manufacture and sales of metal doors as well as building finishing materials including door ironmongery.
Since 2003, Alitco has enjoyed a yearly growth in revenues and profitability which has reached 55 per cent last year. The spokesman attributes this success to the high quality of the company’s products and increase in market penetration over the past years. The company is expecting a growth of 23 per cent during the current year, says the spokesman.
“Our products are manufactured to a high standard of workmanship, using state-of-the-art equipment at our factory and meet all international standards of reputed organisations such as National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers, Hollow Metal Manufacturers Association (HMMA) and Warnock Hersey and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
“We provide a complete package of hollow metal doors and frames, finished hardware. We have employed staff that is not only experienced and knowledgeable, but also sincerely committed to customer service,” he adds.
The company accords high priority to customer relations. “One of our main objectives is to retain customers. It’s also our ISO goal to attain the best in customer satisfactions. The fact that we are gaining an increasing number of customers indicates our success in this endeavour,” he says.
The company supplies a complete range of steel doors and frames to the entire Saudi market, the other GCC countries and Africa. In Bahrain, for instance, it has provided its high-quality doors to the Bahrain City Centre and Bahrain World Trade Centre project.
Alitco is an approved vendor to Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electricity Company, most of the Saudi ministries - having supplied to numerous projects for the ministries of education, interior and defence – and leading local contracting firms such as Saudi Binladin Group, Al Rashid Trading and Contracting and CCE.
