Steel Building for Ethiopian Client Visit

Welcome Ethiopian Clients to Visit Dorian Factory and Discuss Project Details

Project Dimensions: 40*60*6 meters

Project Location: Ethiopia

Project Function: Steel structure warehouse for sesame storage and production workshops

This client holds dual Ethiopian and American citizenship and frequently travels between the two countries. He primarily engages in cross-border trade of sesame and coffee beans, and also sources goods from China for export. This is his fourth visit to China.

What makes this collaboration special is its origin—the client was not found through Facebook or Alibaba platforms, but rather through a referral from an Ethiopian business partner to whom Dorian had previously provided a quote. The client contacted us via WhatsApp on April 18, 2026, and he propose that he plans to make a month-long visit to China soon, mainly to visit several factories in China, including Dorian.

The client initially inquired about a 20*60*6 meter warehouse project for sesame storage and production. On April 25, Dorian submitted a quote and preliminary design drawings. The design was conventional portal frame structure, with no special requirements.

After visiting other factories in Qingdao for three days, the client arrived at Luoyang Longmen Station on the afternoon of April 26th. The Dorian team, greeted the client at the station and arranged hotel accommodations. That evening, the team had initial discussions with the client to understand their background and needs, after which the client was allowed to rest and adjust to the time difference.

The following morning, Dorian accompanied the client on a factory tour. The production lines were operating at full capacity, with multiple projects in production or already packaged and ready for shipment. This provided an excellent opportunity to showcase materials and processes—from the main steel frame and secondary frames to the purlin, bracing, and panel systems. The client listened attentively throughout the tour and witnessed firsthand the exquisite manufacturing processes.

Two professionals standing in front of a modern building entrance, smiling and giving thumbs up.
Ethiopian clients inspecting steel building components at Dorian factory.
After the tour, the team invited the client to a local restaurant to sample Luoyang's specialties before proceeding to the office for in-depth project discussions. Two key design modifications were discussed:
 
1. Drainage system modification: The client proposed replacing the galvanized gutters with color-coated steel channels to reduce costs. We explained in detail the significant drawbacks of colored panel gutters — thickness is typically only 0.5-0.6 mm, while Dorian's standard galvanized Gutters are 2.0 mm thick. Galvanized gutters offer superior corrosion resistance and structural strength, able to withstand prolonged rainwater erosion without deformation or leakage. In contrast, colored panel gutters are prone to coating aging and rusting in continuously humid environments, ultimately leading to leaks. After careful consideration of budget constraints, the client ultimately decided to completely eliminate the gutters system and purchase and install gutters locally.
Steel Building for Ethiopian Clients at Dorian Factory.
2. Window Specification Adjustment: The original quotation used aluminum alloy windows, but the client requested UPVC windows due to budget constraints. Furthermore, the client requested changes to the window locations and quantities, and the addition of several industrial ventilation fans. Dorian's technical team completed a revised layout drawing on-site. The client checked the updated plan and indicated that they would further confirm it with the team.
Ethiopian clients discussing project details at Dorian factory for steel structures.
On the fourth day, the client made a crucial decision—he requested to upgrade the project size from the initial 20*60*6 meters to 40*60*6 meters, confirming that the original quote would apply(This quote is the one we sent to his friend before). After discussing with Dorian’s team, he determined that the 40*60 meter option offered better value for money, with only a slight increase in cost. Dorian had initially prepared this larger plan for his referrer in July 2025.
Ethiopian clients discussing project details with factory representative.
Dorian also assisted the client in arranging a visit to a well-known local tractor factory, providing translation and communication support during the visit. On the sixth day, Dorian accompanied the client to Luoyang High-Speed Railway Station so he could continue his journey to Zhengzhou and Guangdong.
 
Although time was limited and they were unable to visit Luoyang's cultural attractions, the client expressed great satisfaction with Dorian's professionalism and factory capabilities. Upon returning home, the client proactively contacted Dorian to request a plan for the new project—a testament to the trust established during the visit. The new plan is currently under development and is expected to be completed next week.
 
If you have any steel structure project needs, please contact Dorian immediately for a free custom design plan. Dorian offers a one-stop, full-service solution—from design and manufacturing to delivery and construction—to meet your specific needs.
Steel Building Components for Chicken House in Bulgaria

Dorian Steel Structure & The Architect’ 26 in Thailand

The "Architect’26" exhibition will be held in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, it has been held for 38 times so far. As the Asean's largest building technology exposition, and one of the most professional, commercially valuable, authoritative, and significant trade show within the industry, will show the top-class building & construction innovations. one of the highlight of the expo “Thematic Pavilion”, where visitor can experience the next level of creativity as construction materials are transformed into eye-catching and distinctive architectural installations.

"Architect’26" , as the third-largest exhibition in Asia and the premier trade fair in the architectural sector, boasting an exhibition area exceeding 75,000 square meters. The event is held annually. the exhibition attracts over 900 participating companies from around the globe—including Germany, Taiwan (China), Italy, France, the United States, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, and other ASEAN nations—with approximately 150 exhibitors hailing from China alone. together with 88,000 professional visitors including architects, designers, real estate developers, engineers, distributors, and so on.

Thailand and China have harmoniously developed relations. Most of Thailand's construction products rely on imports.

China's advantages in the field of building materials will provide great help to Thailand's demand for building materials imports.

In the past three years, Dorian team has participated in the exhibition consecutively, achieving highly fruitful results. It also provides Dorian with a broader platform to get to know more customers. At the same time, Dorian team has launched a local office in Bangkok, which can provide customers with more convenient services at any time.

This year, the Dorian team will continue to participate in this exhibition, committed to expanding the broader steel structure market, look forward to seeing you at the exhibition.

Booth No: P104/6

Add: IMPACT , Bangkok, Thailand

Date: 28th April-3rd May, 2026

See you in Thailand!

Welcome American client’s architects to visit Dorian factory and discuss the project details 4

Welcome American client’s architects to visit Dorian factory and discuss the project details

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Project dimension: 30*152*10.5m

Project location: Georgia, America

Project function: Steel structure warehouse

The client was Indonesian and immigrated to the America for many years. He also have his own factory in Indonesia and America, which are mainly used for producing kinds of glass. He inquired the steel structure project to Dorian in May 2024, and came to visit the factory in June 2024 after received the Dorian’s solution, the project will be used for storing glass and working office.

The solution has been updated many times since Dorian received the inquiry. Because the project will be located in USA, all the details need to comply with the local regulations, plus the high import tax and building approval issue, it proceed slowly than what we expected. This time, the client arranged his engineer team to Dorian factory to discuss the complete modification details face to face and plan to order within April 2026.

Dorian team picked the client’s architects up in the Zhengzhou East Railway station in the evening of March 17th, 2026 and dropped them off the hotel after dinner. In the morning of the second day, Dorian took architects to visit the factory, the production process of steel columns and steel beams of main steel frame and secondary frame, including the purline, tie bar, roof and wall support etc have been visited, the architects are highly approves of the product quality. By the way, the delivery process also been shown to the engineers, Dorian adopt the steel pallets to make all of the goods into together as one unit inside of each container, which can keep the balance to avoid the breakage of goods. Furthermore, it can also be unloaded more conveniently and quickly, it only use the truck crane with the steel rope to pull the steel pallets out is done after hoisting the containers from truck and place it to the ground.

After finishing the visiting for the production workshop. Dorian and engineers started to discuss the project details in the office, there are some points need to be modified, the irregular big door was required to change into the regular door, the height at the eave from the 10.8m changed into 10.5m, the length and width means the distance between the outside panels to outside panels, and the most importantly, the wind load and mezzanine load were also changed in to heavier than previous one. All of this modifcation  would result to the big difference in the cost after calculated by Dorian engineer, the client engineer also know this situation. Then Dorian engineer set out to modify the drawing start from the afternoon.

Business meeting in an office with a large world map and natural light from windows.
Business meeting with engineers and clients discussing steel building project plans indoors.
In the afternoon, we took them to the local tourist attractions, Longmen Grotto, which are one of China’s Four Great Grottoes and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, acclaimed as the pinnacle of Chinese stone carving art. Every year, the site attracts countless tourists from home and abroad.
Luo Yang floral display with pink and purple flowers and a person standing in front.

In the third day, we took architects to visited the panels workshop, the galvanized steel sheet, EPS sandwich panels, Rock wool sandwich panels and PU/PUR/PIR can also shown to them. For their project, the last scheme is that the roof adopted the 150mm PU edge rock wool sandwich panels and wall use 100mm thickness of PU edge rock wool sandwich panel. After visiting the panel workshop, the client engineer proposed replacing the previous panels with 150mm thickness full PU for roof and 100mm thickness of full PU sandwich panels for wall, the insulation performance of full PU sandwich panels are better than PU edge rock wool sandwich panels and this type and thickness can meet the insulation requirement what local authority required. Dorian engineer finished the update proposal and quotation after two days the client backed to America. After they checked and studied the update solution, they asked Dorian make another solution for panels, 120mm thickness of PIR sandwich panels for roof and 100mm thickness of PIR sandwich panels for wall to compare.

So far, Dorian team has updated about fifteen times proposal for based on the client’s needs. The latest proposal is studying and their engineering team are in the process of converting details to U.S. standards, including feet and inches etc for applying the approval more quickly.

Please contact us freely if you are interested or have the steel structure projects would like to build, Dorian will design customized solution for free. Moreover, Dorian team also provide one-stop service, including the designing, manufacturing, delivery and construction, which will be available as your need. 

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Welcome Chile Clients to Visit Dorian Factory

Project dimension: 2floors of house and a 10*20*7m

Project location: Santiago, Chile

Project function: For living and steel warehouse

The client is a middleman from Santiago, Chile.He has been traveling frequently to China since 1994 and known about China a lot. He mentioned that he has witnessed China’s development firsthand, noting that China has grown extremely rapidly and fast, and that the quality of Chinese products is also excellent, that’s why he inquired and import goods from China.

He inquired about Dorian about a two storey of living house for his own project and a 10*20*7m steel warehouse for his friend. Two days before his visit to Dorian’s factory, he received the proposal and quotation of steel warehouse, which he had been studying. He came to mainly talk the details about the living house, he would like to build this house as a sample to local people and show the quality of China to convince the local people recognize the China suppliers.

Dorian team picked the client at the noon of March 20th, 2026 at Longmen Station. Then the client visited the factory after having lunch. The professional production equipment, like Flame cutting machine, Laser cutting machine, Assembly machine, Sub-merged arc welding machine, Straightening machine and Sand-blasting machine and Eco-friendly spray paint are shown to the client, which can meet the requirement for any large span steel structure project, the client was specially cares about the sand blasting process, which is mainly use the super high tiny metal ball to blast for steel surface, it can not only eliminate the dust&corrosion, and can also increase the adhesion of steel surface, this is one of the most necessary step during the whole production process. Dorian’s products quality and manufacturing scales are highly recognized by client after visited them.

It worth noted that the laser cutting machine, Dorian mainly adopt is fiber laser cutting machines, which can cut various metal sheets such as carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, and galvanized steel, and can also cut various pipes, including square tubes, round tubes, channel steel, H-beams, and angle steel, completing hole drilling, beveling, and blanking in one integrated process.

Furthermore, for other high-precision forming and processing of complex holes, irregular shapes, connecting plates, reinforcing plates, and base plates for steel structures, it replaces traditional processes such as flame cutting, plasma cutting, sawing, and punching, achieving automated blanking.

Its main advantages are:

1. High cutting precision and small dimensional error; component assembly requires less grinding, resulting in faster and more standardized installation.

2. Smooth, burr-free cut surface; no need for secondary grinding; direct welding, saving significant labor and time.

3. Extremely high speed and efficiency; several times faster than plasma and much faster than flame cutting, suitable for batch blanking.

4. Minimal thermal deformation; steel plates remain undeformed after cutting, resulting in smooth surfaces, dimensional stability of components, and superior steel structure quality.

5. Low operating costs, energy-efficient, durable, high photoelectric conversion efficiency, low power consumption, long lifespan, and simple maintenance.

6. Virtually no consumables; no blades or molds required; cutting can be performed simply by importing CAD/Tekla drawings.

7. High material utilization; allows for tight layout, reducing waste and saving on steel plate costs.

8. High degree of automation; one person can oversee multiple machines, suitable for large-scale factory production. It worth noted that the laser cutting machine,

Besides, Dorian can also produce kinds of panels, such as galvanized steel sheet, EPS sandwich panel, rock wool sandwich panels, PU, PUR and PIR sandwich panels, which can be designed as your need. Other relative products, like overhead crane, gantry crane, exhaust fans, ventilation balls, and kinds of doors and windows are also available. After visited the manufacturing process, Dorian team took the client to office to discuss the project details, the client took his own drawing to show Dorian team, Dorian engineer found that it’s truss structure structure in the drawing and there were not the exact columns in it, so the engineer recommend reasonable position for steel columns and beams based on the client’s own drawing, and also recommend H-shape steel columns and beams instead truss structure, the sketch drawing was also provided for client check, since H-shape steel is easier to load and unload, and can also save much container space to save sea freight accordingly. The client will confirm with his own engineer whether our solution is workable for them and will feedback us later. The client plan to adopt insulation materials for roof and natural stone+wood material for wall, he will purchase them locally. For the decoration part, the client also would like to do them locally for maintenance more conveniently and easily.

Two professionals standing in front of a modern building entrance, smiling and giving thumbs up.
Business meeting discussing steel building project plans in an office setting.
Steel building design consultation with professionals in a modern office setting.
In addition, the client mentioned that he needed steel mesh to be used as fence, but the prices of the suppliers he found on Google were too high. Then he hoped that Dorian's team could help to recommend or find suitable suppliers. In accordance with the client's requirements, Dorian recommended several suppliers with reasonable prices, and the client was very satisfied.
 
So far, the client has backed to Chile and discussing with his engineer...

Visit Us at 6th Guangzhou Sourcing Fair

Visit Us at 6th Guangzhou Sourcing Fair — Cutting-Edge Steel Structure Solutions

The 6th Guangzhou Sourcing Fair will be held at PWTC Expo in Guangzhou, China, adjacent to the Canton Fair complex. This premier event serves as a high-quality one-stop business platform for enterprises across Building Materials, Hardware & Tools, and Motorcycles & Accessories, bringing together industry leaders and attracting retailers, importers, wholesalers, and professional buyers from around the globe.

Luoyang Dorian New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. has specialized in manufacturing steel structure warehouses, workshops, poultry houses, commercial buildings, steel hangars, sandwich panels, and cold storage solutions since 1998. Our experienced engineering team will be on-site to provide one-on-one technical consultations, project Q&A sessions, and customized building solutions tailored to your specific needs.

📍 Booth No.: 1G50
📅 Date: April 14–17, 2026
📍 Venue: PWTC Expo, Guangzhou, China

As one of the most influential international trade events in the industry, the Guangzhou Sourcing Fair offers an exceptional platform to connect with global clients and partners. We look forward to welcoming both new and long-standing business friends to explore collaboration opportunities and drive innovation in the steel structure sector.

See you in Guangzhou!

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Welcome Bulgaria Clients to Visit Dorian Factory and Discuss Project Details

Project dimension: 22*55*7m

Project location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Project function: paper cup manufacturing factory

On January 29, 2026, Dorian was honored to host a distinguished client from Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Dorian’s factory in Luoyang, China. Before that, having held two meetings with the client in Bulgaria in 2025, Dorian provided a project plan and quotation for a 22-meter, 90-meter long, and 7-meter high single slope structure with rock wool sandwich panels . At the client's invitation, the Dorian team also visited the client's project site and company. During the conversation, the client mentioned that they were awaiting local building approvals before proceeding with the project.

In early January, the client said the approval had been received and they wanted to visit the factory. Dorian team was on hand to greet the client and his father, escorting them directly from their journey to a carefully selected local restaurant for a welcoming lunch. During the meal, we discovered that it was the client's birthday. To make the occasion special, Dorian team arranged a surprise birthday celebration. The client was both surprised and deeply moved by the gesture, which set a positive and friendly tone for the business discussions to follow.

The afternoon was dedicated to showcasing the tangible evidence of capabilities. The clients walked through production lines, observing firsthand the quality of workmanship, the precision of fabrication processes, and the advanced technology Dorian employ in every project. They examined raw materials, inspected weld quality, and discussed quality control protocols with engineers. This transparency allowed them to witness the rigor and attention to detail that define a Dorian structure.

Steel building manufacturing process with workers inspecting steel components inside a factory.

After the tour, Dorian convened in the conference room for a detailed project discussion meeting. Dorian delved into the specific requirements for the Plovdiv site. At this meeting, the client mentioned that they had only obtained a building permit for 1200 square meters, so the factory dimensions were revised to 22 meters wide, 55 meters long, and 7 meters high.  

Furthermore, after confirming the project dimensions, discussing project specifications, anticipated timelines, logistical considerations for shipping, and the unique technical requirements for constructing in the Bulgarian climate and regulatory environment. Because Bulgaria experiences heavy snowfall and low temperatures, thick insulation sandwich panels are required. In addition, PU-sealed rock wool panels were selected for the better thermal insulation performance and building's aesthetics.

This project will serve as the client's main warehouse for paper products and will be gradually expanded.Based on the client's needs, the Dorian engineering team designed a preliminary plan on-site, presented it to the client, and answered all questions regarding the drawings, ensuring complete alignment between both parties on the project scope and objectives. The dialogue was productive and collaborative, reflecting a shared vision for the project's success.

The client was very satisfied with Dorian's proposal, but he want to compare the price differences between different thicknesses, therefore, the client requested Dorian to provide three different price ranges and quotations for their reference, using50mm, 75mm, and 100mm thick PU-sealed rock wool panels.

Modern indoor meeting with diverse professionals discussing business strategies.

The following day, we led clients on a tour of Dorian’s local project, a steel furniture industrial park. The industrial zone spans 3,300 acres, which includes five five-story workshop buildings, showcasing Dorian’s corporate strength. They walked through the workshops, examining the innovative design of the buildings, the structural integrity of the multi-story frames, and the seamless integration of functional spaces. The clients were visibly impressed, praising the project as a testament to Dorian's unwavering commitment to quality and innovation. They commented that seeing such a large-scale, successful project provided them with immense confidence in Dorian’s ability to deliver on their factory in Plovdiv.

Currently, Dorian dedicated engineering team is diligently working on the detailed proposal drawings for the this project. Dorian are incorporating all the feedback and specific requirements discussed during the visit to ensure the final design is perfectly tailored to the client's needs. Dorian promptly submitted the three proposals and corresponding quotes to the client within three days following the client's return to Bulgaria. Currently, Dorian are awaiting feedback and anticipate visible progress and the next steps to unfold this year.

For any inquiries regarding steel structure buildings—whether for industrial, commercial—please do not hesitate to contact Dorian. Dorian team of experienced professionals is ready to assist you with expert guidance, customized solutions, and comprehensive support throughout every stage of your project. From initial concept and design to fabrication, delivery, and installation, Dorian are committed to excellence. Dorian look forward to partnering with you on your next endeavor and delivering the same unwavering dedication, superior quality, and personalized service.

Welcome to your kindly inquiry about our products, we will be here waiting for you anytime.