The workshop entrance with a finished tank being loaded by overhead crane onto a flatbed
About / Local Manufacturing

The workshop, the process, the people.

This is not an import operation. The tanks are built in Kenya, by Kenyan welders, on machines you can visit. The page below shows the workshop and the process we run on every order.

Nairobi industrial beltASME + AWS qualified welders
What you walk into

An actual fabrication workshop, not a marketing claim.

The workshop is in the Nairobi industrial belt. Plate rolling machines, TIG and MIG welding bays, dye- penetrant test stations, finishing bays, and a flatbed- accessible loading yard. Overhead cranes for vessel handling.

We work to ASME and AWS standards where the spec requires it, and to KEBS and client-specific standards where it doesn't. Welder certification is current; test records on every weld; vessel commissioning supervised on-site.

Industrial CNC plasma cutting table mid-cut on stainless steel plate, sparks and slag visible, operator in welding mask in background
Heavy three-roll plate rolling machine in action, forming a curved stainless steel shell, operator at the controls
Close-up of a TIG welder mid-strike on a polished stainless steel tank seam, blue arc and sparks visible
Completed polished stainless steel tank strapped to a flatbed truck in the workshop yard at sunrise
Process

Every tank goes through six steps.

  1. 01

    Cutting

    CNC plasma and waterjet on incoming plate, sized to drawing.

  2. 02

    Rolling

    Plate rolled to shell radius on heavy three-roll machines.

  3. 03

    Welding

    TIG with argon backing for stainless, MIG for carbon steel.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Dye-penetrant on every seam, hydrotest on every vessel.

  5. 05

    Finishing

    Surface finish to Ra spec for food-grade, painting or galvanising for structural.

  6. 06

    Delivery

    Loaded on flatbed at the workshop, delivered to your plant.

Workshop facts

The capacity, in numbers.

Location
Nairobi industrial belt
Workshop capacity
Up to 30 tonnes per month of structural fabrication
Largest tank we can ship
Roughly 50 m³ welded; larger via on-site bolted assembly
Lead time, standard stainless tank
4 to 8 weeks ex-works
Welder certification
ASME Section IX for stainless; AWS D1.1 for structural
Testing
Dye-penetrant per ASME Section V; hydrotest per ASME B31.3
Source of plate
Mostly East African, with imported when grade requires