New facility features four state-of-the-art steel processing lines
The Tradecore Steel Group, now in its fifth year of operation, continues to expand its footprint throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, providing expertise in the processing, trading and distribution of a wide range of steel products to the construction, mining, rail and power industries.
Tradecore Steel continues to operate through different product focused business partners with facilities in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tradecore Steel’s own portfolio includes several well-established manufacturing and trading units. Key amongst these is the company’s new steel processing facility in Gauteng, which features four state-of-the-art processing lines. The high-speed slitting line is capable of processing cold rolled, hot rolled, galvanised and slit material from 0.25mm to 4mm thick, with a production capacity of 3000 tons per month and a processing speed of 230 metres per minute.
“The slitting lines have the ability to perform decoiling and recoiling, meaning we can supply customers to their required specification with smaller coils in weights they are capable of handling,” says Jean Paul Briner, founding partner and director at Tradecore Steel.
The ultra-modern high-speed flying sheer cut-to-length line, which also has a production capacity of 3000 tons per month, can cleverly adjust its speed, allowing it to process an entire coil of strip without stopping material feed.
“With access to our own cut-to-length facilities, customers can order specific sheet lengths to maximise utility and minimise waste and losses,” continues Briner.
A third line manufactures steel flat bar ranging from 10-100mm in width and thicknesses 1.5-8mm thick, and a roofing line produces inverted box rib and corrugated roof sheeting.
“Our extra processing facilities mean we can offer increased flexibility and reduced lead-times. The speed and precision of the lines – and the resultant ability to guarantee service delivery and quality – has already unlocked a massive customer base that we did not previously have access to,” says Anthony Hoare. “We’re already in the planning stages to extend the facility and our offering soon, and have grown our fleet of trucks just to be able to fulfil delivery to our growing customer base”
The 10,000m2 facility has created 100 jobs, and runs 24 hours a day, five days a week in order to maximise efficiencies.
“During our four years as a company, we have successfully navigated several periods of market volatility, and we have never been stronger or more relevant. Our pipeline of new products and breakthrough processing lines mean that Tradecore Steel is well set to continue to meet our customers’ demands,” says Hoare.
The Tradecore Steel Group of Companies is based in Wadeville, Johannesburg with offices in Durban and Cape Town, and subsidiary offices throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
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