Vindhane Steel Fabrication Plant
Vindhane, Uran · Raigad, Maharashtra
- Up to 120 MT
- Structural steel fabricated every month
- 14,800 sq ft
- Covered area, fabricating since Sep 2024
- 2 × 650 t
- Cranes deployed for heavy lifts on our projects
K.D. Constructions' in-house steel fabrication facility at Vindhane, Uran, Raigad, gives the company direct control over the quality, cost and delivery schedules of structural steel production for railway structures, bridges, FOBs, girders, cover-over-platforms, steel roofing systems, large-span industrial sheds and other structural works.
The plant is equipped with welding, bending and cutting machinery and fabricates in both truss and plate girder systems. Where a project calls for it, fabrication also moves on site.
A 20-tonne EOT crane, now fully operational, makes heavy lifts safer and material handling faster, and the plant has recently fabricated the longest girder in its history.
With fabrication in-house and its own crews on erection, K.D. Constructions controls the full chain from shop floor to final alignment, which matters most where a launch happens within a live railway environment with overhead OHE.
Mankhurd deck
What the plant makes
- Foot overbridges (FOBs)
- Bridges and plate girders
- Trusses
- Cover-over-platform structures
- Steel roofing systems
- Large-span industrial sheds
- Truss and plate girder fabrication
- On-site fabrication where a project calls for it
How it is equipped
- 12 welding sets: 6 electrode, 5 CO2 (MIG), 1 SFW
- 4 gas cutters and 2 PUG cutting machines
- 3 core drill machines
- 2 grinding machines (7 inch)
- Bending machinery
- 20-tonne EOT crane
- Metallising shop, 2 metallising guns
- Painting shop, 3 painting machines
- Air compressor, full set
- 125 kVA diesel generator, with MSEB grid supply
Covered areas
- Main workshop
- 10,000 sq ft
- Copper slag blasting shop
- 1,500 sq ft
- Painting area
- 1,500 sq ft
- Paint storage room
- 1,100 sq ft
- Welding and machinery store
- 700 sq ft
- Total
- 14,800 sq ft
Team
- Staff
- 4
- Fabrication crew
- 19
- Civil work
- 10
- Total
- 33
Crew trades: cutting, welding, core drilling, grinding, finishing and EOT crane operation.
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Fabricated plate girders laid out in the yard, Hydra crane alongside -
Welder at a wire-feed welding set inside the fabrication shed -
The fabrication shop, a fully clad steel shed -
Installing the 20-tonne EOT crane girder inside the shed -
Fabricated girders for the railways loaded out under the EOT crane -
A painted girder lifted onto a trailer for dispatch -
Fabricated members on a trailer, ready to leave the yard -
Arched members fabricated and primed in the yard -
The metallising shop -
The painting shop, its entry hung with strip curtains -
The plant's diesel generator, keeping the shops running on their own power -
Concreting the plant's approach road -
Building the plant's storm-water drain -
The plant team and truck fleet lined up outside the shed -
EOT crane spanning a fabrication shed bay -
EOT crane across the fabrication shed, the crew at work on the floor below -
Dussehra celebration lunch at the plant
From shop floor to final alignment.
Girders and trusses are launched and erected by K.D.'s own crews, including over running railway lines with overhead OHE. At the Vashi FOB the structure was lifted into place with two 650-tonne cranes deployed for the lift; on the Harbour Line, FOBs were launched at four locations, with spans of 44.5 m + 24.9 m at Vashi–Sanpada and 38 m + 29.9 m at Nerul–Seawood.