JandM steel solutions in a joint venture with the Ministry of Construction, Myanmar, have announced the expansion of its steel structure fabrication plant in Thaketa Township, Yangon.
JandM Steel Solutions Co. Ltd. is established by JFE Engineering Corporation.
JandM produces steel bridges and steel structures which started operating in Myanmar since April 2014 in order to improve infrastructure as the country requires highway bridges and railway bridges.
In addition, in Myanmar the JFE Engineering undertakes contracts for other countries to build bridge blocks.
JandM Steel Solutions foresees increasing demand in near future and has decided to expand the plant's production capacity from 10,000 tons per year to 20,000 tons per year by the end of March 2016.
As part of this plant expansion project, the site area will be doubled, from 32,000 m2 to 65,000 m2, and yards for outdoor storage of members and trial shop assembly will be expanded.
At the same time, the area of structures for housing machinery on the site will also be increased from 8,000 m2 to 12, 000 m2, and indoor and outdoor cranes and equipment for the various processes of bridge block fabrication will be added.
The service including painting equipment capable of performing rust-proofing and corrosion resistance treatment to Japanese standards will be introduced, making it possible to fabricate steel bridges for ODA projects with high specifications as an overseas production base of JFE Engineering.
In the future, JFE Engineering and JandM Steel Solutions will continue to contribute to the development of Myanmar, where active infrastructure construction is now in progress.
