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Benlight Fabricators

Fabricators · Lighting · Solar · Boreholes

Engineered
to last.
Installed across
Kenya.

Twelve years of street-light masts, control panels, and borehole pumps that stay running long after the install crew has moved on.

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What we build / 06

Six specialties.
One shop. One crew.

Most projects need more than one of these. We do them all under one roof, so the steel matches the panel, the panel matches the pole, the pole matches the install.

  1. 01

    Street & Security Lighting

    High-mast street lights, security floodlights, and area illumination for streets, compounds, schools, and public spaces across Kenya.

    — Galvanised steel high-mast poles, fabricated in-house and installed on site— LED luminaires sized for 12 m to 20 m mounting heights— Daylight + motion sensor options for compounds and parking lots
  2. 02

    Solar Lighting & Off-grid Power

    Solar street lights, solar-powered borehole pumps, and small off-grid power systems for rural locations without reliable mains supply.

    — All-in-one solar street lights with integrated battery and LED head— DC solar pumping for boreholes — no inverter required— Battery sizing matched to local rainy-season hours of darkness
  3. 03

    Metal Fabrication & Welding

    Custom mild-steel and stainless fabrication — gates, grills, balustrades, structural members, equipment housings, brackets, mounts.

    — MIG and stick welding for mild steel; TIG for stainless— Bending, rolling, drilling, and surface preparation in-house— Hot-dip galvanising and powder-coating coordinated with trusted partners
  4. 04

    Borehole Pumps & Water Systems

    Supply, installation, and servicing of submersible borehole pumps — AC mains or solar DC — plus storage tanks, distribution, and control panels.

    — Sizing based on borehole yield test results and required daily volume— Pump installation, riser pipe assembly, and surface plumbing— Float-switch and dry-run protection wired into purpose-built panels
  5. 05

    Control Panels & Electrical Enclosures

    Outdoor-rated control panels built from the enclosure up — breakers, contactors, timers, soft-starters, MCC sections — sized for the load, labelled for the next technician.

    — Powder-coated steel enclosures rated to IP55 / IP65 for outdoor use— Component selection from Schneider, ABB, Hager, and other Tier-1 brands— Wiring to labelled terminal blocks for serviceability
  6. 06

    On-site Installation Crews

    Trained installation teams who own the work end-to-end — civils, erection, electrical, commissioning, hand-over — anywhere in Kenya.

    — Crews self-mobilise — vehicles, tooling, lifting equipment, generators— Civil works: pole foundations, control-panel plinths, cable trenching— Mechanical: hoisting, alignment, torquing, and load-testing

About / 01–05

Workshop to contractor — twelve years and counting.

Benlight started as a fabrication workshop. Then clients kept asking us to install what we built. Then to wire it. Then to run the pump that fed the borehole that the lights were planted around. Today we own the whole arc.

  1. 01 2014

    Workshop opens

    Metal fabrication: gates, grills, structural.

  2. 02 2016

    First street-light tender

    County-wide install — 40 high-mast units.

  3. 03 2019

    Borehole pumps added

    Solar + AC submersibles, full system design.

  4. 04 2022

    In-house panel shop

    Outdoor control panels built to spec from the box up.

  5. 05 Now

    200+ installs across 40+ counties

    One crew, one bill, end-to-end.

200+ masts installed
40+ counties served
1 crew, end-to-end
12+ years operating

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