Steel that holds the rest of the plant up.
Platforms, walkways, tank supports, pipe racks, and equipment skids fabricated in our own workshop. Concept GA drawings inside a week, ex-works inside the month, on flatbed to your plant on the date we promised.
North Star Impex Kenya runs its own in-house structural steel workshop, fabricating the steel envelope around process equipment: operator platforms and access decks, walkways and catwalks, tank supports and saddles, multi-tier pipe racks, equipment skids (pump, instrument, packaged ETP), and plant retrofits including in-situ welding. Structural design is to Eurocode 3 (British Standards on request) and welding to AWS D1.1, using qualified welders and carbon steel S275/S355 with mill, primed, two-coat epoxy or hot-dip galvanised finishes. Concept GA drawings are returned within 5 working days of brief sign-off, and approved drawings to ex-works delivery typically run three to six weeks by tonnage and finish. Workshop capacity is up to 30 tonnes per month, scaling with the order book. Fabricated steel is delivered on flatbed across East African markets with abnormal-load permits handled in-house.
The structural envelope around your process equipment.
Most of our structural work is in support of our own tanks and silos. But the workshop is open: we fabricate platforms, walkways, tank supports, pipe racks, and equipment skids for any plant scope where the design fits Eurocode 3 or AWS D1.1.
Concept drawings come back within five working days. From approved drawings to ex-works delivery is typically three to six weeks depending on tonnage and finish.
Concept GA inside a week · ex-works inside the month
Six scope buckets, fabricated locally.
Platforms and access
Operator platforms around vessels, sample stations, and mezzanine decks. Galvanised grating, kick-plates, and handrails to plant safety code.
Walkways and catwalks
Inter-silo catwalks, pipe-bridge walkways, and tank-roof access bridges. Modular bays for fast field assembly.
Tank supports and saddles
Vertical tank skirts, horizontal tank saddles, and elevated tank supports for our own tanks or yours.
Pipe racks and supports
Multi-tier pipe racks, individual pipe supports, and service-line carrier structures.
Equipment skids
Pump skids, instrument skids, packaged ETP skids. Pre-piped and pre-wired ex-works where the spec allows.
Plant retrofits
Cutting and reinforcement work on existing structures, including in-situ welding and post-weld treatment.
The workshop · Nairobi
“Most of our structural work is in support of our own tanks and silos. But the workshop is open.”
Drawings inside a week. Ex-works inside the month. On flatbed on the date we promised.
Working days from brief sign-off to concept drawings.
Per month, scaling with the order book.
Typically three to six weeks, by tonnage and finish.
Standards we work to.
- Standard materials
- Carbon steel S275 / S355, hot-dip galvanised on request
- Welding standards
- AWS D1.1, MIG and stick processes, qualified welders
- Finishes available
- Mill, primed, two-coat epoxy, hot-dip galvanised
- Design standards
- Eurocode 3 (steel structures), British Standards on request
- Drawing turnaround
- Concept GA within 5 working days of brief sign-off
- Workshop capacity
- Up to 30 tonnes per month, scaling with order book
- Delivery
- On flatbed within Kenya; abnormal-load permits handled in-house