Meeting the Challenge - Steel Supply with Integrity Whether you are purchasing a single item of steel or require a total project supply of many thousands of tonnes, you need to be assured that your steel supplier is able to rise to the challenge and meet your requirements. You need a steel supplier totally dedicated to meeting the individual and varied needs of each and every customer - SPS meets this challenge. Steel Plate & Sections has nearly 40 years experience of meeting the needs of Offshore Fabrication, Pressure Vessel & Boiler Manufacture, Construction, Materials Handling Equipment Manufacture, Bridge Building, Shipbuilding & Shiprepair, Civil & General Engineering and other industries throughout the world. Material From Stock & Early "Fast Track" Rolling By holding over 20,000 tonnes of stock at any one time at our facilities in the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and Far East, we can respond quickly to your stock requirements, material shortfalls and total project supply anywhere in the world. Close working relationships with the producing mills together with our comprehensive forward order programme and global stock give total flexibility of supply. This enables SPS to meet your immediate and long term steel requirements. Long established trading links within the steel industry allow SPS to offer you a complete supply service of products outside our standard product range. This service saves you time and resources. Our sales team provide a friendly and flexible approach to your steel requirements and have a wealth of experience ensuring you get the help and advice that you need. Material Processing SPS offer a total steel supply together with a full material processing service. The major benefit to you is a "one stop shop" for all your steel requirements, representing considerable savings in terms of time, cost and material management. Services available include: can rolling, profiling, cutting, drilling, milling, chamfering, bending, tee splitting, shot blasting, painting and heat treatment. Sales, Service and Processing Steel Plate & Sections Ltd's headquarters are situated in Birmingham, England where the company was started nearly 40 years ago. Today the company is not only the largest supplier of high yield, boiler & pressure vessel and other quality steels in the UK, it is also a multi national company supplying steel products throughout the world. The company's headquarters are not only the centre of administration for its operations it is also home to our: UK Sales Team Project Team European Sales Team Worldwide export Sales Profiling - Gas and Plasma Cutting Boiler and Pressure vessel stockholding Stainless steel and Alloy Steels Division Our office and factory complex is the commercial heart of the company and is linked to all our other offices and stockyards around the world by computer link and video conferencing. SPS Scotland The company's main warehouse is situated at Glasgow, Scotland. The 300,000 square ft warehouse holds the largest range of high yield steels in Europe with over 20,000 tonnes of stock including; Structural Offshore Qualities, Boiler Plate & Pressure Vessel Quality, H.S.L.A. - High Strength Low Alloy, Abrasion Resistant, Weathering Steel, Alloy Steels, Shipbuilding Grades, Mild Steel, Stainless Steels. Structural Sections Rolled Sections & Shapes, including Beams, Columns, Joists, Channels, Wide Flange Beams, Euronorms, Angles and Bars - Flat, Round and Square Tubulars, Pipes & Structural Seamless, S.A.W. Tubulars, Process Structural Hollow Pipe and Pipeline Materials, R.H.S., S.H.S. and C.H.S. SPS Scotland is also the home to our Scottish Sales Team and Quality Assurance department Overseas Facilities and World-wide Shipping SPS has strategic stocks at a number of sites in Continental Europe and office and stockyard facilities in the Middle East and Far East. In the Middle East we have an associate company in Dubai - SPS Middle East FZE, with a sales office and stockyard. In the Far East we have a local SPS office in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and strategic stockholding in Singapore and Indonesia. Materials are shipped all over the world by conventional shipment, container shipment and when required by airfreight. Project Management At SPS we recognise that projects have increasingly demanding technical specifications, complex delivery schedules and logistics, while still having to be brought in under budget and on time. It is for this reason that SPS has developed a dedicated project team with an understanding of your project needs that is second to none, releasing you to concentrate on other areas of the project. The Team provide the following services Total Steel Supply Full Certification & Material Traceability Full Quality Assurance procedures Detailed project reports at specified periods Bonds & Guarantees Buy back facility at the end of the project Video conferencing available for meetings at any stage of the project. E-mail facilities for sending bids, progress reports, shipping/export documentation, test certificates and other project communications Project Supply SPS regularly supplies large projects, both offshore and onshore, with plates, sections, tubulars and associated products, following are details of a few of the recent projects supplied that are testament to our achievements in this specialised area. CLIENT TITLE TONNES YEAR OCCIDENTIAL   2000+ 2007 TECHNIP/IEMANTS RASLAFAN 4000+ 2007 NEXEN ETTRICK FIELD 2000+ 2006 / 07 QATAR SHELL PEARL 1000+ 2006 / 07 ONEGAS/AJS SEAN COMPRESSION 2,000+ 2006 / 07 PETRONAS TURKMENISTAN BLOCK 1 1,000+ 2006 / 07 TECHNIP OCEANIA KUPE 1,000+ 2006 ONGC INDIA 9 WELL PROJECT 2,000+ 2005 / 06 AKER KVAERNER LNG ADRIATIC 6,000+ 2005 / 06 SHELL PEARL GTL 4,000+ 2005 / 06 CLOUGH AUSTRALIA G1 & G15 1,000 2005 / 06 SAKHALIN ENERGY LUNSKOYE / PILTUN 35,000 2004 / 05 PETRO CANADA DE RUYTER 16,000 2004 / 05 CONOCO BRITANNIA SATELLITES 3,000 2004 / 05 ENCANA BUZZARD 3,500 2004 / 05 TECHNIP SIMIAN / SAPPHIRE 2,000 2004 CPECC / HPSIC - SUDAN MUGLAD / MELUT BASIN 6,000 2003 / 04 ( China Petroleum / Higleig Petroleum, Sudan)       SNEPCO BONGA NIGERIA 16,000 2002 / 03 EXXON MOBIL MAD DOG 2,000 2003 BP AMOCO RHUM 2,500 2003 BROOKE / MITCO LUNDIN PETRONAS 6,000 2002 / 03 MAERSK OIL HALFDAN / DAN FG 2,000 2002 / 03 ONGC / HYUNDAI LAKSHIMI / HV 5,000 2001 HYUNDAI SOROOSH NOWROOZ 2,000 2001 PETRONAS CARIGALI RESAK 2,400 2001         During the 1990's SPS supplied tens of thousands of tonnes from stock and early rolling to many projects, including : - SHELL - various, including : OSPREY, GANNET, KITTIWAKE       TERN, NELSON & SHEERWATER 30,000 + 1990's ADNOC / NPCC RUWAIS BERTH & AL SHAHEEN 20,000+ 1990's BRITISH GAS - various, including ROUGH ENHANCE& ARMADA 20,000+ 1990's CONOCO BRITANNIA 20,000+ 1990's CHEVRON VENEZUELA LAKE MARACAIBO 10,000+ 1990's SPS Quality Assurance In today’s challenging environment our customers demand high quality products and services. Material ordered must be to the correct dimensions and specifications with prompt delivery to meet deadlines. SPS’s culture is one of total commitment to quality. To ensure that we consistently supply materials and service to the highest possible standards, our quality management systems are audited and certified by LRQA and approved to the International Standard ISO 9001. Material is supplied fully certified to EN 10204 3.1b or 3.1c as required All material is supplied with mill certificates and hard stamped for full traceability Additional third party inspection is available at your request SPS are able to provide advice and information on steel specifications and welding data when required If you would like to download a copy of our certificate then please click here. If you do not have a copy of Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® installed on your computer, please click on the logo below and follow the instructions.   Material Testing When specific applications require material with additional testing, SPS provides a complete testing service using independent NAMAS approved test houses. All testing carried out would be either Lloyds, DNV or other third party witnessed. Additional testing available includes the following: Charpy Impact testing HIC to NACE specifications Through thickness testing (T.T.T.) Ultrasonic testing (U.T.) Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI) Hardness testing Chemical and physical analysis Pellini drop weight tear tests SPS Internal Specifications SPS stock material is ordered to both international and SPS ‘in-house’ specifications. These ‘in-house’ grades have more stringent physical, chemical and testing requirements than the equivalent national and international standards to ensure that the maximum number of customer and project modifications can be met.