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Business / Qatar Business

QALEX boosts production capacity

Published: 09 Jan 2017 - 12:29 am | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 11:50 am

The Peninsula

Qatar Aluminium Extrusion (QALEX) Company has doubled its production capacity through adding new production lines to vary its products and increasing the output. For such purpose, the company invested QR45m provided by Qatar Development Bank (QDB)through the different facilities of the Bank.
Established in 2008, QALEX was the first plant for aluminum extrusion in the State of Qatar. QALEX is one of Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company (QIMC) subsidiaries in partnership with a group of local companies including Salam International Investment Limited (SIIL), Aluminium Technology and Auxiliary Industries WLL (ALUTEC), Qatar Real Estate Investment Company (AlAQARIA), Aluminum Gulf Ray (AGR), Qatar Belgium Aluminium Company (QBELCO), and Qatar-Oman Investment Company
Abdul Rahman Al-Ansari, Chairman stated that QALEX made many contracts with companies of great experience to the supply an Aluminum Extrusion Line (7 inch) from SMS, OMAV with output capacity of 7,000 Tonnes a year; Anodizing & Coloring Line from MONTI ENGINEERING with output capacity of 4,000 Tons a year to provide the local and international market with anodized aluminum profiles with many colors, all levels of Bronze, Stainless Steel, Gold, Polished and Matte finishes; and  Powder Coating Line with state of art technology from SAT, TREVISAN Company, with an output capacity of 11,000 Tonnes  a year which conforms to the International Standards to produce aluminum profiles resisting the sever climate conditions - seaside quality
Other deals include EMMEBI Polishing and Brushing Machine for manufacturing highly-polished and surface-treated aluminum profiles in many forms and shapes; and a specialized Italian company has been contracted to add a 30 m3/hr. Industrial Water Treatment Unit in order to reuse it in production lines and to use a part of it for manufacturing purposes .