Clotan Steel (Pty) Ltd | 4 Hertz Blvd 10th Avenue, Tshepiso, Vanderbijlpark 1900, Gauteng

Clotan Steel started off on a very small scale in 1983 by selling blanked galvanized sheets that were decoiled manually from mother coils and cut to specified lengths with a primitive guillotine. The client base consisted exclusively of informal businesses that manufactured handmade galvanized items such as buckets etc. This low overhead business was conducted in order to maintain some sort of cash flow while, simultaneously, an IBR profile roof sheeting roll former was being manufactured from scratch on the premises. The IBR roll former went into operation after 21 months. With limited finances, hard work and endurance by the owners and staff of four, a new business was born. One thing led to another and more roof sheeting roll formers were built so that by 1990 a total of two corrugated plants, the original IBR plant and an additional wide span plant were all in operation. Additional value was added to the profiled products when curving, bull nosing and cranking of sheets to customer specification were int