Our story
A trade learned the long way — yard by yard, bar by bar.
The story of Saroj Enterprise starts in 1985, when Mayank Patel first stepped into Ahmedabad's steel trade. Long before there was a company, there was a young man walking through stockyards, learning to tell EN8 from EN19 by the marking on a bar, learning which mills could be trusted and which couldn't, and learning that in this business your name travels faster than your trucks.
Five years later, in 1990, the three brothers — Mayank, Kalpesh and Gautam Patel — came together to formalise the business and founded Saroj Enterprise out of a small office in Ahmedabad. The plan was simple: stock the engineering and alloy steel grades local machine shops actually needed, hold enough on the shelf to dispatch quickly, and let the certificate speak for itself. Mayankbhai's trade experience anchored the buying, while Kalpeshbhai and Gautambhai built up operations and customer relationships from day one.
Over the years that followed, we did what serious stockists do: moved into a proper plot in GIDC Kathwada, built up a working stock of more than 400 tonnes, and put automatic precision saws on the floor so customers could get bars cut exactly to their dispatch sizes. We invested in our own ultrasonic testing equipment — and brought it under ASNT Level II competence — because no buyer of EN31 bearing steel or large EN24 shafting should have to take "trust me, the material is sound" on faith.
Today, the next generation is coming into the business. Ansh Patel is reading materials engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada, learning the metallurgy that sits behind every grade we sell. The combination — four decades of trade, plus a new pair of eyes that knows the science from first principles — is exactly what we want to bring to our customers.
We are still a family business. The people you speak to on the phone are the people whose name is on the door. That is unusual in steel, and we intend to keep it that way.
