MEsteel - Al Rahabi Trading Group

AL-RAHABI TRADING GROUP, which is considered one of the oldest trading house in Yemen, was initially established by our late father, AL-HAJ ALI-RAHABI, under the name of "AL RAHABI TRADING STORES", in the late fifties of the twentieth century and was dealing exclusively in building-materials and general trade.

Pertaining to its significantly wide spread fame and remarkable reputation in the market within a short time, Trading Store was able to achieve expounded market representation in rendering the market excellent promotion, services quality product importation.

AL-RAHABI TRADING GROUP, has managed to achieve its envisaged objective under the auspices of our country's stabilized and secured economic and free trade system in the field of trade, industry, manufacturing, service - rendering, encompassed with genuinity and efficiency which soundly provides a vital contribution to the building of country's economic development and to utilizing its potential wealth through establishing various economical and industrial projects in order to materialize strong national economic infrastructure. In the course of promoting our national economy, we would like to express our anxious ambition to welcome any international company to establish a joint venture company with us in Yemen.

In view that Yemen is a remarkable consumption market and this can be accentuated through the increasing rate of productivity in the private industrial sectors during the last previous ten years. as such, within the expected productivity acceleration rate, national productivity rate will include many other economic sectors.

Among our potential future objectives, we have various strategic plans and studies about certain profitable projects with quicker-turn-over mechanism and faster return and revenue of the investment. As we also would like to assure foreign companies that we welcome any of them interested to get into partnership or form a joint venture project with us.

YEMEN STEEL
MANUFACTURING CO. LTD.

YEMEN STEEL is a limited liability Yemeni Malaysian joint venture company established in May-1999, and started production in May-2000, with annual production capacity of (80.000 mtons) covering production of various steel products. When these products entered market, for the first time, all our customers were much interested in their excellent qualities and remarkable presentation, which had been for a longtime talks off the town allover the Republic.

Such a positive market reflection about our products has given us much self-confidence, and forward thrust towards attaining more better quality products. Conforming to international standard specifications, products and performed under the latest technological mechanization and highly expertised supervisions.

We are aiming to be perpetually pioneers in rendering our customers best services, best quality goods, manufactured our of high quality raw materials which are supplied by worldwide, outstanding raw material suppliers.

As such, our objectives also, include increasing production lines to cover varieties of steel products, such plans, covering production of various steel products such as: Equal Angles, Flat & Square Bars, Galvanized Pipes, Square Tubes, Expanded Metal, GI Corrugated Sheets, Cut to Length Sheets, GI, HRC, etc., and others are now under continuous studies.

YEMEN LEADER STEEL
MANUFACTURING CO. LTD.

YEMEN LEADER STEEL is a limited liability Yemen-Malaysian joint venture company established in 1999, the erection started in May 1999 and to start production by end 2002. Its annual production capacity of deformed and plain steel bars assorted sizes are expected to be 120.000 mtons.

This plant is considered to be first of its kind in the Republic of Yemen, in connection with strategic heavy industrial capable of providing considerable yield and returns, which can contribute, in a reasonable extent, to the economical development of the country.

Company's management will mostly adhere to the production of quality goods conforming to the international standard specifications that will qualify such products market scopes to cover all local steel requirements and be extended for export to foreign countries.

Such production capacity of about 500.000 mtons annually shall be according to program-layout, reached in the year 2003, though anticipations envisage that local steel bar requirements will increase in the future, so as will be the requirements of our neighboring Africa countries. It is through such positive speculations and the significant future prospects that enhanced us to establish this giant company, which we are confident, will be one of the nation's economic corner-stone.