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Send quantities and destination
Linear meters, panel m², or metric tons; profile family and thickness; destination country and port; required on-site date. If you have drawings or a structural model, attach them.
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PEB Corp Group · LGS/CFS manufacturing
Cold-formed steel profiles, panels, and kits, manufactured in Panama
NewCon Steel® manufactures LGS/CFS profiles, panels, and kits at its Panama City plant; it does not build buildings. Every piece ships CNC-cut and punched to ±0.5 mm (±0.02 in), ready to bolt.
±0.5mmCNC dimensional tolerance
0.85–2.5mmProfile thickness range
275g/m²Zn-Al-Mg, both sides
48hFormal quote · reply within 24 business hours
- AISI S100-16 (R2020) w/S3-22
- AISI S240-20
- AISI S400-20
- ASTM A1003
- ASTM A1046 Type 1
- EN 10346 · ZM275
- ASCE/SEI 7-22
- REP-2021 (Panama)
- NSR-10 (Colombia)
- ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 37001
At a glance
What does NewCon Steel® do?
NewCon Steel® is PEB Corp Group’s cold-formed steel manufacturer. It supplies LGS/CFS profiles, pre-assembled panels, and structural kits from Panama; construction is performed by SmartBrix Construction or the buyer’s contractor.
It produces structural profiles from 0.85 to 2.5 mm, pre-assembled panels, and complete structural kits at its CNC plant in Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City, and ships them to Panama, Colombia, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Products
- Profiles, panels, kits, and bolted steel
- Plant
- Las Mañanitas, Panama City · EMMA
- Origin
- Panamanian certificate of origin · HS 72.16
- Does not
- Build buildings or publish prices
01Why NewCon Steel
What is already settled when the steel leaves our line
We manufacture structural steel in Panama and hand you the documentation behind every figure on this page. Need a turnkey building? Talk to SmartBrix Construction.
Dimensional control
±0.5 mm, piece by piece, straight off the model
Every profile leaves the line cut, punched, marked, and labeled by CNC from the structural model, to a ±0.5 mm (±0.02 in) dimensional tolerance. On site the piece gets screwed down: no cutting, no welding, no field fitting.
±0.5 mmLabeled per piece0.85–2.5 mm
Direct from the manufacturer01
The steel is roll-formed on our line, in Panama
The coil enters our roll-forming line at Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City, and comes off as your cut, punched profile. You buy from the plant that makes the part, not from a trading house that imports it and marks it up.
Panama City
Tour the CNC plant Coating02
Zn-Al-Mg 275 g/m² coating
Coil with a zinc-aluminum-magnesium coating, 275 g/m² total both sides (0.90 oz/ft²): ZM275 (EN 10346) / ZMM275 (ASTM A1046). It carries the same coating mass as a Z275/G90 galvanized product, with magnesium and aluminum added to the zinc.
ZM275 / ZMM275ASTM A1046 Type 1
Standards and coating Origin03
Certifiable Panamanian origin
Cold-forming in Panama changes the tariff heading (from flat-rolled product to structural section, heading 72.16) and supports Panamanian origin. We issue a certificate of origin; preferential treatment and the final duty are decided by the destination country’s customs authority.
Certificate of originHeading 72.16
See regional coverage 02What you buy
Four levels of supply, one plant
From the linear meter of profile to the complete building structure. You pick the level based on how much work you want taken off the job site.
- Level 1 · MaterialLGS/CFS profilesStuds, tracks, hat channels, C-sections, and Z-purlins from 0.85 to 2.5 mm, CNC-cut, punched, marked, and labeled. Quoted by linear meter or by metric ton (1,000 kg).
- Level 2 · Pre-assembledStructural panelsLoad-bearing walls, floor cassettes, and roof trusses assembled in the plant, indoors and against a shop drawing. They arrive numbered and sequenced to the model, ready to lift.
- Level 3 · Complete structureStructural kitsThe building’s entire structure on one purchase order: profiles, panels, connections, and accessories, with the model and the structural calculations signed by an engineer licensed in the project’s jurisdiction.
- Parallel lineBolted structural steelCold-formed portal frames with every hole and connection made by CNC in the plant. Erection is bolts only: no field welding, no site galvanizing.
03The plant
Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas
The same plant that supplies group projects fills your purchase order. Coil is uncoiled, cold-formed, then cut, punched, marked, and labeled by CNC straight from the structural model. Every piece is tied back to the shop drawing, so traceability runs from the label to the originating steel coil.
- Cold-forming (roll-forming) line with coil decoiler.
- CNC cutting, punching, marking, and labeling driven by the structural model.
- Dimensional check of each frame against the shop drawing before dispatch.
- In-house overhead crane and loading yard: bundling, securing, and loading at the plant.
20,000m²/monthProduction capacityAbout 215,000 sq ft/month. CNC plant operated under Panama’s EMMA regime (Law 159 of 2020). Monthly capacity is not a delivery promise for an individual order; each order’s lead time is confirmed against the order.
Colombia
Need profiles, panels or kits for Colombia?
Review supply options from our Panama plant, information needed for a quote and delivery responsibilities for your Colombian project.
Steel framing profiles for Colombia04Export and coverage
Made in Panama, a few days’ transit from your site
Certifiable Panamanian origin and regional transit measured in days. Tariff questions are handled directly with your customs broker from the quote stage; the final duty is always set by the destination country’s customs authority.
- Transit to Central America and the Caribbean in days, with no transpacific crossing.
- No full-container MOQ: the production run is set against your takeoff.
- Panamanian certificate of origin issued with the shipment.
- Engineering and after-sales support during Panama City business hours (UTC−5), in English and Spanish.
PlantDestinations
05Comparison
NewCon Steel against the options you are actually weighing
Compared by supplier category, not by brand. Every cell in the NewCon column is verifiable against a document we hand you.
| Criterion | NewCon Steel® (Panama) | Imported steel (Asia) | Local fabricator / job shop | Reinforced concrete |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin and transit | Manufactured in Panama City; regional transit in days | Production plus a transpacific crossing: weeks of ocean freight and customs | Short in theory; capped by the shop’s capacity | Not applicable: built in place |
| Design standard | AISI S100-16 (R2020) w/S3-22 and AISI S240-20; verified against REP-2021, NSR-10, or IBC/ASCE 7 as the destination requires | Standard varies; equivalence has to be demonstrated | Varies; frequently no sealed calculations | ACI 318 or the local code |
| Dimensional tolerance | ±0.5 mm, CNC-controlled piece by piece | Varies; no piece-level traceability | Depends on the shop; hand cutting is common | Field tolerances (centimeters) |
| Coating | Zn-Al-Mg 275 g/m² total both sides (ZM275 / ZMM275), applied to the originating coil | Varies; check the actual coating mass on the mill certificate | Frequently cold galvanizing or paint applied on site | Not applicable |
| Field cutting and fitting | None: pieces cut, punched, and labeled from the model | High: standard stock lengths, fitted on site | Medium to high | High: formwork, curing, weather dependency |
| Field welding | None: bolted and screwed connections | Common | Common | Not applicable |
| Sealed structural calculations | Included with the structural kit, signed by an engineer licensed in the project’s jurisdiction | Rarely included; the buyer contracts them separately | Sometimes | Contracted by the project |
| Minimum order | No full-container MOQ | Typically a full container | Varies | Not applicable |
| Who answers when you file a claim | A plant in the region, working Panama City business hours (UTC−5), backed by PEB Corp Group | A counterparty twelve time zones away, with the container already on the ground | Local | Not applicable |
| Origin documentation | Panamanian certificate of origin; preferential treatment per the applicable agreement and the destination customs authority | Asian origin; duty treatment per the destination’s tariff schedule, absent an applicable agreement | Local origin | Not applicable |
The third-party columns are market generalizations, not statements about any one supplier: check them against the offer you are evaluating. The final duty on any import is determined by the customs authority of the destination country.
06How to buy
From inquiry to purchase order
The process is built so a technical buyer can evaluate the offer without sitting through a discovery call.
- Send quantities and destination
- Engineering review
- Formal quote
- Fabrication with traceability
- Shipment and documentation
Step 0202
Engineering review
An engineer reviews scope, thicknesses, and the code that governs at the destination (REP-2021 in Panama, NSR-10 in Colombia, IBC/ASCE 7 in the Caribbean) and builds the takeoff.
AISI S100-16
Step 0303
Formal quote
You get a quote with scope, quantities, thicknesses, coating, fabrication time, and shipping terms. Lead times are confirmed against your actual order, never against an average.
48 h
Step 0404
Fabrication with traceability
Roll-forming, cutting, punching, marking, and labeling by CNC to a ±0.5 mm tolerance. Every piece is identified against the shop drawing and the originating steel coil.
±0.5 mm
Step 0505
Shipment and documentation
Bundled, secured, and loaded at the plant. The shipment goes out with the mill certificate and the Panamanian certificate of origin; the final duty is determined by the destination customs authority.
Certificate of origin
07PEB Corp Group
Three brands, one chain: engineering, construction, and manufacturing
PEB Corp engineers. NewCon Steel® manufactures. SmartBrix Construction builds. NewCon Steel® is the manufacturing unit of PEB Corp Group. NewCon Steel® is not related to other companies named “NewCon.”
Parent · Engineering & exportPEB Corp
Group parent: structural engineering, BIM design, institutional relations and the export gateway.
- Pre-Engineered Buildings Corp, S.A.
- AISC 360 · ASCE/SEI 7 · BIM
- Caribbean · Guyana · Suriname · DR · Venezuela
Construction · TurnkeySmartBrix Construction
Construction unit: turnkey Steel Framing and modular projects in Colombia, Panama and Central America.
- SmartBrix Centroamérica S.A.S.
- Steel Framing · Modular construction
- 350+ group projects · 15+ years
Manufacturing · LGS/CFSNewCon Steel®
Manufacturer of cold-formed steel (LGS/CFS) profiles, panels and structural kits at the group’s CNC plant; it does not build buildings.
- NewCon Steel Corp.
- 0.85–2.5 mm · ±0.5 mm · Zn-Al-Mg 275 g/m²
- CNC plant in Las Mañanitas, Panama · since 2018
PEB Corp Group certifications: ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 37001.
08FAQ
What buyers and engineers ask us
Thickness, coating, standards, minimum order, and lead times. Need more? The buying guide walks through it step by step.
What does NewCon Steel manufacture, and what does it not do?
NewCon Steel manufactures steel: cold-formed LGS/CFS profiles (0.85 to 2.5 mm), pre-assembled structural panels, complete structural kits, and bolted structural steel, at its plant in Centro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City. NewCon Steel does not build or hand over finished buildings: it manufactures, certifies, and ships the steel. Construction is handled by the group's construction unit, SmartBrix Construction.
What thicknesses and what coating does NewCon Steel supply?
NewCon Steel manufactures in thicknesses from 0.85 mm to 2.5 mm, from coil with a zinc-aluminum-magnesium (Zn-Al-Mg) alloy coating at 275 g/m² total, both sides — designation ZM275 (EN 10346) / ZMM275 (ASTM A1046 Type 1) — which works out to roughly 137.5 g/m² per side. That mass matches a high-grade Z275/G90 galvanized product and sits more than 50% above the G60 structural minimum (180 g/m², 0.59 oz/ft²) referenced by ASTM A1003. See LGS/CFS profiles from 0.85 to 2.5 mm.
Will NewCon Steel's steel corrode in a Caribbean coastal or marine environment?
NewCon Steel uses a Zn-Al-Mg alloy coating, not pure zinc. The magnesium and aluminum migrate across cut edges, punch-outs and fastener points, forming a protective film wherever bare steel is exposed — which is exactly where conventional galvanizing fails first on a cold-formed profile. In peer-reviewed literature, Zn-Al-Mg coatings show 2 to 4 times lower mass loss than conventional hot-dip galvanized steel after 4 to 6 years of real atmospheric exposure, including marine sites. Nippon Steel separately reports 10 to 20 times better performance than galvanized in accelerated salt spray testing (JIS Z 2371); salt-spray hours are not a linear predictor of service life, which is why we cite both figures and name the test behind each one.
What is the difference between buying profiles, buying pre-assembled panels and buying a structural kit?
The three NewCon Steel levels differ by how much work leaves the job site. LGS/CFS profiles are loose material, CNC-cut and punched, that your crew frames on site. Structural panels arrive already assembled in the plant — walls, floors, and trusses — numbered and sequenced for lifting. A structural kit is the building's entire structure on a single purchase order, with connections, accessories, and structural calculations signed by an engineer licensed in the project's jurisdiction.
Does it make more sense to buy steel in Panama or to import it from Asia?
Buying from NewCon Steel in Panama removes the transpacific crossing: transit to Central America and the Caribbean is measured in days, not weeks, and there is no full-container MOQ to clear before you can order. The goods are cold-formed in Panama — which changes the tariff heading to 72.16 and supports Panamanian origin with a certificate of origin — and your technical counterpart answers during Panama City business hours (UTC−5). What NewCon Steel cannot promise you is a duty rate: the final duty is always determined by the customs authority of the destination country.
Does NewCon Steel build the building?
No. NewCon Steel manufactures and supplies the structural steel; it does not build. Inside the PEB Corp Group, SmartBrix Construction handles construction and PEB Corp provides the engineering and the institutional relationship. If you already have a contractor, NewCon Steel sells you the steel direct and your crew erects it.
Which standards does NewCon Steel's steel meet, and who seals the structural calculations?
NewCon Steel members are designed to AISI S100-16 (R2020) with Supplement 3 (S3-22) — the North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members — and to AISI S240-20 for framing systems, with seismic design to AISI S400-20 and loads to ASCE/SEI 7-22. Verification is then run against the code of the destination country: REP-2021 in Panama, NSR-10 in Colombia, IBC/ASCE 7 in the Caribbean. The structural kit ships with calculations signed by an engineer licensed in the project's jurisdiction. See engineering and standards.
What is the minimum order, and how long does a NewCon Steel order take?
NewCon Steel does not impose a full-container MOQ the way an Asian mill does: the production run is set against your takeoff, and the commercial minimum that applies to you is confirmed in the quote, based on profile family, thickness, and destination. Fabrication and shipping time are likewise confirmed against your actual order, not against a published average: send quantities, thicknesses, and destination, and you get a formal quote within 48 hours.
09Quote
Get your steel supply quoted in 48 h
We reply within 24 business hours with clear next steps. If you already have drawings or bid documents, send them by WhatsApp or email and we will review them for your quote.
WhatsApp sales+507 6608 8555
Phone+507 6608 8555
Emailinfo@newconsteel.com
Group office and manufacturing plant in PanamaCentro Industrial PEB, Las Mañanitas, Panama City, PanamaGroup office in BogotáCalle 76 # 8-28, Bogotá, ColombiaGroup office in Santo DomingoCalle Bienvenido García Gautier, No. 14, Primer Piso, Arroyo Hondo Viejo, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
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