HG Metal is a premier steel stockist that offers a wide variety of steel products used in various industrial and engineering applications, including the following:

• Pipes/American Petroleum Institute ("API")
• Pipes
• Mild Steel Lip Channels
• Ship Plates/Steel Plates
• Channel Bars
• Flat Bars
• Angle Bars
• Deformed Bars
• Tubes/Hollow Sections
• I-Beams/H-Beams

HG Metal brings great convenience to customers with the ‘one-stop supermarket’ strategy. With a single visit to our well-stocked warehouse and manufacturing facility, our clients will be able to satisfy all their steel needs.
Being the only steel stockist in Singapore with a manufacturing arm, we are able to custom manufacture steel products according to our customers’ specifications. We thus have a distinct competitive advantage against our competitors as we can fulfill our customers’ requirements more quickly and completely, especially for specifications that are not readily available in the market. Apart from convenience, our clients also enjoy cost savings with our one-stop strategy.

HG Metal currently manufactures customized flat steel bars used in a wide variety of engineering processes and mild steel lip channels commonly used as roofing support in commercial and industrial buildings. It intends to expand its product mix to include the manufacturing of steel pipes.
Realizing the future potential of its manufacturing business, HG Metal invested $3.3 million to build a new 3–storey steel manufacturing facility and warehouse in Singapore, which became operational in 2001.

Our subsidiary Oriental Metals Pte Ltd (OM) has also begun construction of a new factory as announced previously. Expected to be completed by March 2006 and to cost nearly $1 million, this new factory will house a sandblasting plant. This foray into sandblasting represents yet another step by the Group to increasingly focus on value-added services. One of the industries we are supplying to is shipyards which require their ship plates to be sandblasted before use. Our sandblasting operations should commence in the second half of FY2006.