Mammut Building Systems (MBS), one of the region’s largest manufacturers of pre-engineered steel buildings (PEBs) and polyurethane-injected sandwich panels, claims to have a 25 to 30 per cent share of the PEB market in Qatar and is confident of further growth in the market.

“We are very strong in the Qatar market, as we have a full-fledged sales operation offering every services right from estimations and proposal drawings to erection,” says Muhammad Al Khudhairi, regional sales manager.
“The Qatar market is booming as is the rest of the region and there is plenty of work with ample opportunities in the PEB market,” he adds.
Among the largest projects MBS is currently involved in Qatar is the Lulu hypermarket, a 20,000 sq m complex, in Gharifa and Woogoud Gas Filling Station in Doha new industrial area. It has newly completed the General Electric service centre in Al Kore.
The Doha sales operation of MBS was set up in 2003 with Khudairi at the helm. Khudhairi has extensive experience in the pre-engineered steel buildings over the past 28 years having previously held positions as plant manager at Kirby Building Systems Kuwait, regional sales manager for Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh, based in Colombo for Zamil Steel, and general manager of Zamil Steel’s Vietnam factory.
Fabrication of steel buildings is undertaken in the UAE at MBS’ state-of-the-art factory at Sharjah’s Hamriyah free zone. This factory is the midst of an expansion that aims to double its capacity from 6,000 tonnes per month to 12,000 tonnes per month, according to Bob Webster, managing director of MBS.
“MBS’ recent partnership with Emaar Industries and Investments (EII) has facilitated the expansion drive,” Webster adds.
The deal with EII will also aid the company’s expansion into countries such as India where it is setting up a factory with a capacity to manufacture 12,000 tonnes of pre-engineered steel per month.
“Our partnership with EII will further strengthen our competitive advantage,” he says, adding that this partnership would further increase Mammut’s annual average growth of 100 per cent for the last seven years.
The company has unveiled plans which include the introduction of the new long span purlin G-2 (Second Generation). Unlike conventional purlins that have a maximum span of about 8 m, the new G-2 purlin can go up to 12 m or more. This will give customers a more flexible building, fewer frames and foundations, a shorter time to erect and savings in terms of both time and space, says Webster.
MBS, which started operations from Jebel Ali in 1997, moved to its 30,000 sq m factory in Sharjah in 2001, which currently has the capacity to deliver 6,000 tonnes of pre-engineered steel and over 180,000 sq m of polyurethane-injected sandwich panels per month,
MBS is part of the Mammut Group, a leading enterprise and the holding company of three entities.