Shbo Custom Steel

Product Description

KAPHS Custom Steel is a premium made-to-order steel profile system designed specifically for architectural curtain walls, façades, and feature structures. Profiles are produced from carbon, weathering, or stainless steel and finished with premium fluorocarbon coatings from AkzoNobel, Jotun, and PPG.

Because steel has roughly three times the elastic modulus of aluminium, Custom Steel can carry far greater loads at a fraction of the cross-section — enabling long spans, super-tall window walls, and high-permeability façades that aluminium cannot achieve. Combined with thin intumescent coatings, Custom Steel achieves two-hour fire resistance, offering a slender, safer alternative to both aluminium and conventional steel.

Custom Steel ships either as profiles, assembled unitised steel frame panels, or full space grid structures, reducing on-site work and tightening tolerances. Every profile is engineered project-specific — material, geometry, finish, and connection detail.

KAPHS Custom Steel is engineered and manufactured in partnership with SHBO Group, a specialist producer of refined steel profile systems for architectural façades and curtain walls.

KAPHS supplies Shbo custom steel in carbon, weathering and stainless grades, finished to any RAL colour or metallic tone with fluorocarbon coatings backed by a twenty-year warranty. Eight engineered connection-node geometries let the system resolve complex junctions, curves and cantilevers, making custom steel suited to façades and curtain walls, skylights and canopies, doors and windows, feature structures and heritage refurbishment where slim sightlines matter. Every custom steel project is supported with engineering, shop drawings, samples and installation guidance.

Custom steel — frequently asked questions

What is custom steel? Custom steel is a made-to-order architectural steel profile system that delivers the slender sightlines of aluminium with the strength and span of structural steel, engineered per project for façades, curtain walls and feature structures.

Why choose custom steel over aluminium? Steel has roughly three times the elastic modulus of aluminium, so custom steel carries greater loads at a much smaller cross-section — enabling longer spans, taller window walls and larger glazing with far less visible framing.

What grades and finishes are available? Carbon, weathering and stainless steel, finished with high-performance fluorocarbon coatings (AkzoNobel, Jotun, PPG) in any RAL colour or metallic tone, with a twenty-year coating warranty.

Is custom steel fire-rated? Yes — combined with thin intumescent coatings, custom steel can achieve up to two-hour fire resistance.

Where is custom steel used? Façades and curtain walls, skylights, canopies, doors and windows, feature structures and heritage refurbishment across the UAE and GCC. KAPHS is the Middle East representative for Shbo.

KAPHS Custom Steel is engineered for large-span, high-transparency, and bespoke-geometry façades — applications where conventional aluminium lacks the strength and traditional steel lacks the slender architectural language. Profiles deliver an aluminium-equivalent appearance with the structural performance of steel, allowing architects to specify cleaner, more open, and more daylit envelopes across four primary categories.

Transportation Hubs

High-speed rail stations, airports, and subway concourses demand long-span roofs, high transparency, and façades that read as light as aluminium while carrying steel loads. Custom Steel is the system of choice — slender, fire-rated, and engineered for the rhythm of civic-scale architecture.

Exhibition & Cultural Landmarks

Museums, art galleries, libraries, concert halls, and exhibition centres rely on Custom Steel for daylit atria, sculptural roofs, and free-form grid shells. Single-curved and twisted geometries are produced from 1:1 three-dimensional lofting — every component digitally fitted before fabrication begins.

Public Buildings

High-ceilinged lobbies, atriums, daylighting roofs, entrances, canopies, and unitised steel frame panels — the everyday architecture of public life. Custom Steel reduces on-site work by shipping as assembled units and grid panels, with tighter tolerances than anything achievable on site.

Super-Tall Buildings

Non-standard irregular nodes, bent and twisted components in super-tall structures . Custom Steel allows architects to express slender tower silhouettes without sacrificing structural integrity — a category of detailing that conventional aluminium and traditional steel cannot reach.