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APL Apollo: Staying Ahead of the Curve, Confidently

Brand APL Apollo has risen meteorically in the last decade. How was this growth fuelled?

If you look at APL Apollo's history, we are amongst the first ones to get into structural steel tube segment. Before 2000, the main applications for round shaped steel tube were transportation of water, oil and gas, which many large players were manufacturing. But APL Apollo anticipated new trends and started working on square and rectangular pipes that have a better load bearing capacity even for huge structures, replacing the conventional steel products, which were mainly open sections. APL Apollo increased its utility and options in steel tube category to create a unique business model very different from that of our competitors. In the decade of 2000, PVC pipes were introduced which disrupted water transportation in a big way as plumbers preferred to go for them because they were cheaper, easier to handle and transport. But APL Apollo was not impacted because it was not catering to that market. So, our competition

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