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Involving children I am blessed with 10 children, four of them yet to reach university. My advice to anyone is to educate their children to the highest possible level so as The heart of steel to realise their dreams. all over the East African durable, hard to damage, and Also, give them exposure in Community courtesy of our long lasting. PVC pipes do not all aspects of life to gain the quality products. rust, rot, or wear out over experience that will enable We have achieved this by time. them to take on responsibilities adopting the most modern They also have the ability to and work diligently with technology, employing withstand extreme movement integrity and commitment in a professionally-trained and bending. life. workforce and complying We manufacture PVC It is also important for them with the highest international and HDPE pipes of various to appreciate that in life we live standards. dimensions and fittings as a society, by the old African All our products conform used in plumbing, drainage saying, “I am because we are” to the DIN 8062:1988, management and in electrical – Ubuntu. National Bureau installations. of Standards and ISO These range from 20mm My values international standards. We to 200mm in diameter and The foundation to success lies invest in continually training Dr Ruhakana (second-left), Dr Lalani and family cut cake during celebrations to mark relevant fittings. in the promise you make to the our personnel.Our success Roofings Group’s 25 years of service Today, we are the largest steel community, the team that you story has helped to realise the manufacturing plant in Uganda build to realise this promise, Roofings Group’s vision. Investment Authority and The highly advanced installation of a cold rolling and . and the values you create to we were apportioned space machinery was manufactured mill complex with a capacity to We export to , Burundi, guide you towards the promise. Roofings Rolling Mills in Industrial and and imported from Canada, produce 180,000 metric tonnes DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Values such as integrity, Ever since I started the steel Business Park. Italy and Germany, and of aluminium-zinc (Aluzinc or South Sudan. innovation, commitment and business, it has always been We were the first plant on applies a patented high- AZED) galvanised iron sheets We take the biggest share of doing business in a sustainable my vision to establish a cold the southern part of the park, turbulence pickling system with and pre-painted AZED iron the market in Uganda, and earn manner. rolling mill complex. showing a commitment to ecologically-friendly processes. sheets. a lot of foreign exchange for The relationship with the industrialisation in Uganda. The galvanising plant has the Uganda through these exports. My journey Japanese goes back 40 years Though there was virtually no capacity to produce 12,000 Roofings PolyPipes All the above could not have For the past 25 years, we have and their involvement as infrastructure, the Government metric tonnes of galvanised Previously, we were been achieved without the continued to invest in the most technical and equity partners encouraged us to start while wire per annum. Galvanised manufacturing galvanised support of the Government and modern technology. in Roofings Rolling Mills shows they work on the necessary steel goes through a zinc- pipes which became outdated. people of Uganda, as well as With the country moving the value of team work and installations. coating process that keeps it We saw it right to venture the East African Community, towards middle-income status partnerships. To date, we have invested from corroding and rusting. into manufacturing of plastic along with our East African through agro-processing, The purpose of Roofings $180m worth of capital in Phase two involved the products for the construction partners in business. mineral-beneficiation and Rolling Mills was to engage in Roofing Rolling Mills and commissioning in 2010 of a hot industry. In the future, we hope and industrialisation, we are backward integration and value established it in three phases. rolling mill with the capacity to The aim was to wholly serve plan to go public. With the trust committed to being a part addition using world class Phase one involved the produce 72,000 metric tonnes the construction sector. Our we have gained over the years, of this journey that will see technology. installation of a high-tech wire of high tensile TMT reinforced products are made from a we are confident that the public Uganda attain this goal, taking On inception of this project, galvanising plant unlike any rebars. plastic and vinyl combination will be interested in investing in her place as a key player in the we contacted Uganda other in Sub-Saharan Africa. Phase three involved the material. The pipes are Roofings Group. African marketplace.