APL Apollo Tubes Limited (APL Apollo) is one of India''s leading manufacturers of branded steel products. APL Apollo''s multi-product offerings include over 1100 varieties of MS Black pipes Galvanized Tubes Pre-Galvanized Tubes Structural ERW Steel tubes and Hollow Sections. With state-of-the-art-manufacturing facilities The Company serves as a one-stop shop'' for a wide spectrum of steel structural products catering to an array of industrial applications such as urban infrastructure automobile construction housing energy irrigation solar plants greenhouses and engineering. Headquartered at Delhi NCR the Company operates 11 manufacturing facilities with a total capacity of 2.55 MTPA. It has a PAN-Indian presence with units strategically located in Sikandarabad (4 units) Malur Bengaluru Hosur Dujana Raipur Murbad and Telangana. The Company''s vast 3-tier distribution network of over 790 dealers is spread all across India with warehouses cum- branch offices in over 29 cities. The company has eight manufacturing units four at Sikandrabad Uttar Pradesh one in Hosur Tamilnadu one at Raipur Chhattisgarh one in Bengaluru Karnataka and one in Murbad Maharashtra. The Company had three wholly owned subsidiaries as on March 31 2019 namely Shri Lakshmi Metal Udyog Limited (SLMUL) Apollo Metalex Private Limited (AMPL) and Blue Ocean Projects Private Limited. APL Apollo Tubes Ltd was incorporated on February 24 1986 as a private limited company. The company started a unit at Sikandrabad (UP) to manufacture M. S. Pipe. And then they also set up facilities to manufacture G. I. Pipes. In October 19 1993 the company was converted into a public limited company. In 1995 they entered in to capital market by way of a public issue amounting to Rs 438 lakh. In 2002 the company modernized their plant. During the year 2009-10 the company commissioned world-scale manufacturing facilities at Hosur Tamil Nadu with installed capacity of 200000 MTPA and extend the brand ''APL Apollo'' in promising markets. They transformed five of their branches in Ghaziabad Gurgaon Jaipur Pune and Ludhiana to a full-fledged steel product retail chain under the name of APL Apollo Steel World. Also the name of the company was changed from Bihar Tubes Ltd to APL Apollo Tubes Ltd to attain a strategic image makeover and brand building.