Incorporated in the year 1984, Amardeep Steel Centre is a dealer, supplier and exporter of raw materials like pipes, tubes, plates, fittings, fasteners, etc. as well as process equipment such as heat exchangers, towers, tube-bundles, etc made up of tantalum, titanium, zirconium, Hastelloy, niobium, Inconel, Monel, nickel alloys, duplex steel, stainless steel, alloy steel and carbon steel among other metals.
In a conversation with Tube & Pipe India, Mr. Deepak Sheth, Marketing Manager, Amardeep Steel Centre, talks about the company’s business journey, product range, and future plans.
“Our future plan is to increase exports as well as strengthen our presence in the domestic market….We are planning to set up overseas offices for business expansion.”
Tube & Pipe India: Could you please give us a brief outline of the business journey of your company along with some crucial milestones?
Deepak Sheth: Under the stewardship, of Mr. Sumermal K. Sheth, the idea of Amardeep Steel Centre was born in the year 1984. Mr. S.K. Sheth is a visionary entrepreneur who had the ability to foresee huge opportunity in the Indian Metals Industry. From a small enterprise which was catering to domestic clients is now an international player with the advent of liberalisation.
AMARDEEP STEEL CENTRE has emerged as a revelation in this aura of cut- throat competition in the steel sector of the Indian Industries. Amardeep Steel Centre has been a pioneer in manufacturing, supplying, importing and exporting industrial raw materials. Over the past 3 decades it has been primarily into supplying ferrous & non ferrous metals to India’s leading industries.
TPI: Cast some light on infrastructure, manufacturing capabilities, and machinery installed at your facility.
DS: We have a warehouse 10,000 sq ft in Mumbai where we keep our stock. We even fabricate some custom made items for our customers as per their order requirements
TPI: Tell us about your product portfolio along with the key strengths and applications.
DS: Our product mix consists of raw materials like seamless and welded pipes & tubes, plates, sheets, round bars, wires, pipe fitting likes bends, stub ends, tees, reducers, unions, caps, couplings, elbows, flanges, rods, welding electrodes, wires, coils, angles, circles, shims etc. Also, the process equipment like heat exchangers, pressure vessels, reactors, etc. caters to the ever-increasing needs of numerous industries like chemical industries, petrochemicals, fertilizers, pharmaceutical, power plants, steel industries, sugar industries, refineries, etc.
Amardeep Steel Centre is a proud supplier of Industrial Raw materials & Process Equipment to Fortune 500 Companies of India and all the renowned Public Sector Units of the country. In addition to this, it is the one of the very few suppliers which is registered with all the companies of the Ministry of Defence.
TPI: What are the recent developments and what will be your future plans for this?
DS: Our future plan is to increase exports as well as strengthen our presence in the domestic market. Recently, we have started keeping stock of Corten steel plate, which is extensively used in infrastructure projects but not easily available. We are also keeping stock of alloy steel P91 pipes, which is very critical for power plants. Secondly, we are planning to increase our share of exports by setting up overseas branch offices.
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TPI: Share your outlook on the tube & pipe industry. How do you see the market evolving in the future?
DS: I believe that the market is so massive that you can trade as much as you want. There’s no limit to how much you can sell steel materials. Moreover, after the COVID pandemic and the implementation of the ‘Make in India’ policy, Indian products are in huge demand. Many countries have banned products of the Chinese origin due to which India is getting a boost.
