The Company was founded in 1971 as a partnership trading in steel products. It was incorporated in Singapore on 4 August 1988. On 1 February 2002, it was converted into a public limited company under the name of HG Metal Manufacturing Ltd. The Company is a stockist and distributor of steel products and also a manufacturer of flat bars and mild steel lip channels (MSLC). In order to be a "one-stop supermarket", it stocks and distributes a wide variety of steel products including the following: Pipes/American Petroleum Institute (API) Pipes, MSLC, Ship Plates/Steel Plates, Channel Bars, Flat Bars, Angle Bars, Deformed Bars, Tubes/Hollow Sections and I-Beams/H-Beams. The Company sources its steel products from various countries including Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. Its customers are mainly other stockists and retailers who purchase its steel products for redistribution to a diversified group of end-users in the construction, engineering and shipping industries, amongst others. The market for the Company's products is both domestic and overseas. It exports mainly to customers in Malaysia and Indonesia.