Customer-centric piping solutions Level 1 BBBEE supplier of steel pipe and accessories, API Piping has been servicing the

South African market

API Piping is a 100% black-owned company established 27 years ago to provide customers with quality and consistent products, underpinned by personal service from subject matter and industry experts.

The company has aligned itself through partnerships with leading OEMs across the globe to ensure it has access to materials from world recognised mills and stockists, all the while keeping itself accountable through ISO 9001:2015 certification, which is audited by Dekra. API also has a consignment store within one of Southern Africa’s major refineries, ensuring the highest levels of service.

More than being just a supplier of materials, API works with its customers to make sure that the best, fit-for-purpose products are produced at the most appropriate standard for their application. This approach, backed by the company’s technical and logistical excellence, plays a key role in guaranteeing customers’ peace of mind.

API takes pride in being a complete solutions provider, by delivering five key services:

• Technical Advisory Service

• Sourcing and Supplying of pipes, fittings, and flanges,

• Lining and Coating

• Fabrication Services and

• Logistics Services – delivery to site.

An established, multisectoral reputation

API has built its reputation through operating with integrity, establishing trust among all stakeholders in its value chain, and gaining the necessary experience over nearly three decades of doing business to ensure quality service. The company has consistently placed a focus on cultivating strong relationships with its customers by providing superior quality products and excellent service levels. Coupled with its vast expertise, API Piping has been able to cement its place as a major player in the local and SADC export markets.

The multisectoral internal proficiencies API has developed over the years ensure that the products and services it offers are ideally suited to the intended context. The company has built extensive supplier databases, knowledge and relationships in sectors that include petrochemical, water, paper and forestry, food and beverage, mining, farming and agriculture, construction and building, engineering, and energy. It offers tailor-made solutions for its core sectors.

API has worked extensively with both major public and private sector players, including eThekwini Municipality.

Working with eThekwini

Between 2013 and 2015, API was responsible for the provision of piping for eThekwini’s extensive Western Aqueduct project. Under this contract, the company provided approximately 15 km of OD 914 up to OD 1200 mm, which is Durban’s largest ever bulk water pipeline. This supply line feeds water to Durban from the Midmar and Spring Grove dams and is set to meet the needs of the greater Durban region until 2036. API was also awarded the maintenance contract between 2016 and 2018 for the supply of pipes from OD 100 mm to OD 610 mm and currently hold the maintenance contract for small bore piping.

Beyond this, API consistently helps to keep water flowing across eThekwini through supplying pipes and services to the various contractors working on capital and refurbishment works across the municipal area.

API has taken the decision to establish a cement lining and coating plant in KZN to meet market and provincial needs. This coupled with its ability to provide full turnkey services – from cement lining to fabrication and materials delivery – it is clear that API Piping is geared to be a proud partner of local government and the private sector for many years to come.