Kirby Building Systems is a manufacturing company specialising in

pre-engineered building In structural engineering, a pre-engineered building (PEB) is designed by a PEB supplier or PEB manufacturer with a single design to be fabricated using various materials and methods to satisfy a wide range of structural and aesthetic design requ ...

s. It was established in 1976 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alghanim Industries. Kirby has manufacturing facilities in

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

Ras Al Khaimah Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) ( ar, رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة, historically Julfar) is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It is the sixth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al Ain ...

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

Haridwar Haridwar (; ) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 in 2011, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district. The city is situated on the righ ...

and

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

with a production capacity of over 400,000 MT per year. It has sales offices in 70 countries.

History

Kirby was established as a joint venture between Alghanim and Kirby Building Systems Inc. (Nucor), USA in 1976 with a production plant in

. In 1981 it built the largest textile complex in the world in Alam, Egypt. In 1996 it received ISO 9001:2000 quality certification. In 2000, the plant in

was opened; one year later Kirby India received ISO 9001:2000 certification. In 2006 a plant in Haridwar was inaugurated with a capacity of 60,0000 MT. The plant had an investment of Rs 50

crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is e ...

(500 million Rupees). A year later another plant was inaugurated in

and construction started on a plant in Vietnam. In 2009 the company reintroduced curved steel structures, an alternative style to other PEB buildings.

Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities

Kirby centralized its systems, performance, people and products. Kirby has over 500 people using software for designs and structural detailing as part of the Center of Engineering Excellence (CEE) in Hyderabad in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Kirby has a total of five manufacturing facilities located in Kuwait, Ras-Al-Khaimah (UAE), Vietnam and India, with a total annual capacity of approximately 400,000 MT, supported by over 4,000 employees. The company operates through 70 sales offices located across six geographical regions, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the rest of Middle East, the Indian subcontinent,

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russ ...

and

South East Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

. Globally, Kirby has more than 300 certified builders for the installation of steel buildings. Kirby has manufactured more than 65,000 buildings across the globe, including the world’s single largest PEB building, the Renault Nissan factory in India. File:Kirby Kuwait.Jpg, Kirby Kuwait Manufacturing Plant File:Kirby Hyderabad.jpg, Kirby Hyderabad Manufacturing Plant File:Kirby Haridwar.jpg, Kirby Haridwar Manufacturing Plant File:Kirby Ras-Al-Khaimah.jpg, Kirby Ras-Al-Khaimah Manufacturing Plant File:Kirby Vietnam.jpg, Kirby Vietnam Manufacturing Plant

Landmark Projects

Some of the projects the company has executed include: :Renault-Nissan, India: World's single largest PEB at one single location involving over 20,000MT of steel and spread over an area of 300,000 sqm. :Marina Mall, Kuwait: Bridge :Pipavav Shipyard Ltd., India: One of the largest ship building facilities built with a height of 40m. :AFCON Marine Jetty, UAE: Structural Steel :Panasonic Factory, Vietnam: One of the largest facilities in Vietnam :Toshiba-JSW, India: Unique structure consisting of a single 500 MT crane. :Emma Mall, Bahrain: Curved Roof. :Hindustan National Glass, India: World's largest container glass manufacturing facility :Universal Arwa printing Press, Kuwait: Aesthetically elegant structure :Hansen Drives, India: World's largest wind turbine gear box manufacturing facility :Safat Alghanim, Kuwait: Commercial Building :Danieli India Ltd., India: Complex structure with 42 nos of cranes running across different directions. :Delhi Metro, India: First of its type with curved rafters and the first metro rail to use PEB technology. :Bangalore Metro, India: Infrastructure Building :Truong Hai Auto, Vietnam: Commercial Building File:Renault Nissan Automotive India Ltd.png, Renault Nissan Automotive India Ltd, World's largest PEB File:Marina Mall Bridge, Kuwait.jpg, Marina Mall Bridge, Kuwait File:PANASONIC FACTORY HUNG YEN-FACTORY.jpg, PANASONIC FACTORY HUNG YEN-FACTORY, Vietnam File: Arwa printing Press, Kuwait.jpg, Arwa printing Press, Kuwait File:Bangalore Metro Station, India.jpg, Bangalore Metro Station, India File: AFCON_Marina_Jetty,_UAE.png, AFCON Marina Jetty,UAE

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