_______________________________________________________________________________________ Allied
Steel Buildings
“ Allied is a global company, designing, engineering, manufacturing, and delivering pre-engineered metal buildings, structural buildings and those that we refer to as‘ hybrid structures’. We typically work on projects that have critical timelines and design needs in sectors that require high-speed development, such as aerospace, high-tech manufacturing, data centers and energy, but broadly speaking, we can do everything from typical industrial buildings to logistics parks, commercial centers and hotels,” Michael begins.“ We’ ve invested significantly in our manufacturing facilities and the benefit of that is that we’ re able to accommodate a lot of different categories of construction. We’ re able to provide not just the main structure of the building, but also any of the interior and support steel, so a client can come to us to find one solution and provider for the entire project. We consider ourselves to be a design collaboration partner that has all the added benefits of project management and manufacturing in one place.”
In 2024, Allied was proud to launch its first US location – a monumental move that signified a major shift in its growth trajectory. Situated in McGregor, Texas, the new site is a stunning state-of-the-art production facility: bespoke, purpose-built and fully-automated, marking the company’ s first permanent imprint on US soil. The Texas location was initially constructed to address the increase in demand from Allied’ s existing clients, but 120,000 square feet later, the site has transformed into a production powerhouse that perfectly complements the company’ s Spanish facility and significantly augments its scale of operations.
“ We started out as a sales, engineering and project management company; we didn’ t start manufacturing until 2021. We still took care of all the design engineering, but manufacturing was outsourced. We had great partners in the US who were manufacturing for us, and we still do today, but our client demand was growing regarding the buildings and timelines that were needed from our clients, so in 2019, we eventually invested in our first manufacturing facility in Spain. We built the Spain facility with capacity to grow, and over the following two years, we tripled in tonnage produced.
“ It became clear that, to meet the continued demand and growth, we needed a facility in the US, and we chose Texas because it’ s our biggest market; it’ s central, it’ s near a
By investing in automation and robotics, you can measure and monitor everything to not only measure quality, but cadence as well port and it accommodates the domestic and international demand. It’ s been a great location for us,” Michael explains.
“ Our investment philosophy was focused on the long term, building a more advanced facility that incorporates the latest technology, automation and robotics, because that’ s where the industry is headed. When it comes to making commitments to clients, you need to understand how you’ re going to be able to accommodate their project requirements such as quality control. By investing in automation and robotics, you can measure and monitor everything to not only measure quality, but cadence as well – to ensure you’ re able to meet a client’ s deadline.”
The implementation of these cuttingedge technologies and automation has revolutionized Allied’ s production processes, boosting its operational efficiency and laying the foundations for further growth in both its capabilities and capacity. Amongst the company’ s most exciting technological investments is its custom robotic assembly
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