Design Better
Architectural and structural design tailored to EPS-panel construction, with SCHNELLCAD production planning.
Services & capacity
Design, production and construction under one roof
Using extensive experience and prefabricated building technology, EDAB delivers quality buildings in Ethiopia within a short time and at competitive cost.
Produce Panels
Factory production of EPS sandwich panels, electro-welded wire mesh and stirrups in Gelan.
Build Green
Design-build construction of housing, schools, health facilities, commercial and public buildings.
Deliver Fast
Prefabricated elements assembled and completed on site — cutting construction time by around half.
Our capacity
A state-of-the-art factory in Gelan
EDAB established its first — and unique — state-of-the-art construction material factory at Gelan, Oromia Region, on 20,000 m² of land, with a complete production line from Italy's SCHNELL Group.
1,411,000 m²EPS panels per year
20,000 m²factory site
300M+ Birrinvestment
Our products
EDAB Homes sandwich panels
Our panels guarantee substantial savings compared with traditional systems — for single or multi-storey houses, public buildings and even high-rise buildings.
Single Panel
Sandwich panels made of two galvanized electro-welded meshes joined by connectors and a shaped EPS polystyrene sheet, whose thickness varies with architectural and insulation requirements.
Double Panel
Two single sandwich panels assembled with an intermediate cavity of variable thickness, depending on the building type and the required wall resistance.
Floor Panel
Sandwich panels for floor and roof coverings, with a thickness that varies according to spans and design loads.
Stairs Panel
A shaped EPS sheet covered by two electro-welded meshes, with riser and tread adapted to the project. Reinforced and completed by casting concrete into ribs inside the EPS.
Polistop
An insulating sandwich panel that integrates with traditional structures, completed on site. Ideal for infill walls of residential, commercial and prefabricated industrial buildings, and for partition walls.
Our machinery
From wire coils and EPS blocks to finished panels
Our SCHNELL machines start from wire in coils and polystyrene blocks and produce sandwich panels with a polystyrene core and two welded mesh mats — ideal for villas, apartments, multi-storey, public and industrial buildings and social housing.
PTB 400
Cuts EPS polystyrene blocks horizontally and vertically into sheets of different thicknesses and shapes.
R6
Rotor-type wire straightener for cut-to-size wires up to Ø 6 mm, driven by digital servomotors, pulling up to 160 m/min.
ML 1250 BB
Automatic mesh welder producing electro-welded mesh from pre-straightened wire, up to 1250 mm wide and 2000–6000 mm long.
ML 1250 BC
Mesh welder fed by bars and coils, producing mesh up to 1250 mm wide with unlimited length.
AP 120 M
Automatic mesh welder for longitudinal and transversal pre-straightened wire, up to 1250 × 6000 mm.
AP 120 CA/E
Fully automatic assembler that welds the connectors between the two meshes — producing single, double and floor panels.
TJI 3200
Robotic plant: robots load mesh and EPS sheets into the assemblers, then unload, stack and bind the finished panels.
PTRE
Electromechanical mesh cutting and bending machine for U, L and Z-shaped mesh, up to 1250 × 6000 mm.
Software
SCHNELLCAD
Working with AutoCAD, our production software makes the manufacture and installation of sandwich panels easier and less wasteful. It:
- calculates panel areas, optional mesh, material quantities and labour hours;
- generates the production list with the number and dimensions of every panel;
- produces site drawings for assembling and cutting the EPS panels, optimized to minimize waste.
Planning a building project?
Talk to our engineers about delivering housing, schools, health facilities or commercial buildings faster — and greener — with EPS-panel technology.