September 2015 SOLUTIONS STEEL

Our Capabilities We hope to be your preferred partner by offering

innovative solutions to spearhead the
construction industry.

FOREWORD
by Yeoh Choon Kwee
Head - Building Solutions, Senior Vice President

Bringing the
We have the ability to fabricate Heart of
Reinforcement
complex cages for multiple usage
on-site.

closer to you

N
atSteel has been producing welded mesh and offering cut
& bend services for more than 30 years. In line with the
government ‘s drive to increase productivity, NatSteel has
pioneered reinforcement solutions in the form of bored pile
cages and prefabricated cages. These solutions not only help reduce
manpower, improve cycle time, reduce wastages and improve site safety,
it also helps to overcome technical complexities which would otherwise
pose problems on site.

In this inaugural issue of Solutions Steel, we feature our capabilities in

providing innovative solutions for bored pile cages. We help customers
redesign their cages to ease difficulties in welding laps between cages.
We also substitute heavily reinforced cages with T50 bars to reduce the
main bar congestion and allow sufficient space for concrete flow. We are
Our Reinforcement Consultants
confident that our machine-fabricated bored pile cages are superior in
work closely with customers to
terms of quality and consistency as compared to conventional bored pile
overcome site constraints and provide
cages tied on site.
specialised technical advice
DESIGN INNOVATION
NatSteel’s Design Cage

48pcs of 40mm + 51pcs of 50mm bars

48pcs of 32mm bars

Savings
NatSteel’s Design Cage e rial
Mat
10%

Your Challenge
• Insufficient spacing between
main bars affect concrete flow
during casting
• Impossible to weld laps between
cages
Our Solution
• Redesign cage with bigger
main bars diameter to allow for
sufficient clear spacing between
bars
Your Benefit
• Save welding time
• Easy installation
• Reduce concreting defects
eg. Honeycombing
Your Challenge Our Solution
• Toe level of bored pile cannot be • Double cranked cages allow for
ascertained at installation due to easy and flexible connection
soil condition
Your Benefit
• Reduce material wastage
• Reduce waiting time on-site

QUALITY • Connecting bottom pile cage can be cut and used elsewhere

Manual Fabrication Machine Produced Cage

2x Links 4x Links 6x Links

avings
ate rial S
M
12%
Your Challenge Our Solution Your Benefit
• Bar diameter of link is too big to • Our unique capability allows for • Reduce material wastage
be bent to required shape cages with multiple spiral links • Increase clear spacing between
• Required spacing cannot be • Multiple spiral link cages offer links
achieved wider design flexibility
Unsafe Product Our Product
 CUSTOMER FOCUS
Tang Joo Kim S.Sreenath
Director Project Director
CS Bored Pile System Pte Ltd Zap Piling Pte Ltd
DW Foundation Pte Ltd

CSC has been in a long-standing We trust NatSteel to deliver high

working partnership with NatSteel
for more than a decade. NatSteel is
commended for being proactive in
sharing project information, as well as
the constant effort to ensure timely
deliveries as per project schedules.
Their Reinforcement Consultants have
also been working closely with our
project teams in providing conversion
solution and implementation of
complex cages.
We appreciate the regular
communication on our weekly
requirements and the prompt
response on delivery matters. We are
glad to have NatSteel as a business
partner, that improve our operational
performance and competiveness in
the market.
quality products. Apart from reducing
material wastage, the other key
benefit that we have gained from
using NatSteel’s prefabricated
steel products is the reduction of
manpower on-site.
We are glad that NatSteel places great
importance on safety, and emphasises
that through their annual Safety Day.
 
Zap Piling has been working with
NatSteel since 1997, and we certainly
hope to continue this partnership for
many years to come.

For enquiries, please contact the following:

Yeo Li Lee DID: +65 66608039 HP: +65 96421733 EMAIL: yeoll@natsteel.com.sg
Yong Heng Cheong DID: +65 66607801 HP: +65 87222387 EMAIL: yonghc@natsteel.com.sg
Paul Ng DID: +65 66607899 HP: +65 97656655 EMAIL: nph@natsteel.com.sg

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