Zamil Steel inaugurated recently its second factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at the Amata Industrial Park in southern Dong Nai province, the company said in a statement. The new Vietnam factory boasts a production capacity of 4,500 metric tons a month of pre-engineered buildings and other steel products. Total investment in the new plant is estimated at SR75 million ($20 million). The factory will increase the total production of Zamil Steel Vietnam from 50,000 metric tons to 100,000 metric tons of steel buildings annually. The state-of-the-art facility will also have the capabilities to fabricate two new product lines - structural steel and open web joists, providing a wider range of steel building solutions and product options to satisfy ZSV customers, both in the domestic and export markets. At the opening ceremony of the new factory, Adnan Al-Mansour, president of Zamil Steel Industries, at the opening of the new plant, said: “The demand for high-quality pre-engineered steel buildings is growing rapidly, and Zamil Steel Vietnam, as the leading international manufacturer of PEB, has become a major part of our strategy to get closer to our customers. This new plant was carefully and strategically positioned for that purpose - to aid ZSV in meeting their demands within the shortest possible delivery period.” “This vital addition to our international network of manufacturing facilities will prove invaluable as we continue to find new and innovative ways and introduce new products to serve our customers with the same high level of quality and dependability they have come to expect from us,' concluded Adnan Al Mansour. Zamil Steel is Middle East's premier supplier of structural steel products and process equipment, transmission and telecommunications towers. It manufactures more than 330,000 MT of fabricated steel per annum of low rise and high rise steel buildings and structures for diverse industrial, commercial, agriculture and aviation applications.