About Us We are the largest manufacturer of clay building blocks and Metpro steel and aluminium windows and doors and Astralite and Spectra uPVC windows and doors in the English-speaking Caribbean. Abel Building Solutions (ABS) is a subsidiary of ANSA McAL. ANSA McAL Limited is a diversified public conglomerate. Listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE: AMCL), it is one of the largest local conglomerates with an asset base of over US$1.5 billion. To date, its business operations span the manufacturing, brewing, insurance, finance, real estate, media, shipping, trading/distribution, automotive and industrial equipment retailing sectors. ANSA McAL’s subsidiaries operate in the region in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Guyana, Grenada, and the USA. The ANSA McAL Group’s history began in 1881, when George R. Alston established Geo R. Alston and Company as a small agricultural trading company in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1919, with his entrepreneurial drive, keen business acumen and vision, he founded Alston and Company – a diversified group of successful companies which included Trinidad and Tobago’s first match company, Trinidad Match Company (est. 1887); a shipping company now know known as Alstons Shipping (est. 1905); a clay manufacturing company, Trinidad Clay Products (est. 1947 – now Alstons Building Enterprises Ltd.) and an insurance company, Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Co. Ltd. (est. 1963). In 1947, Alstons Ltd. was created, as was the Caribbean Development Co. Ltd., the brewing company of our world famous Carib beer. Abel For over sixty (60) years, ABEL has been at the forefront of the buildings material industry and has earned the reputation for quality, variety and innovation. To complement its range, ABEL added the Metpro PvC windows and doors line in 2005 and is presently looking for suppliers for clay flooring tiles. In 2005, the air-condition division of the Ansa McAL Group was brought under the ABEL umbrella and is called the ABEL Air Condition Division. ABEL Air Conditioning Division provides a full range of air conditioning equipment and services to the Trinidad & Tobago market. As the authorized dealer for Carrier equipment in this market, ABEL represents the oldest and most respected air conditioning brand in the world. ABEL can supply your every air conditioning need from the smallest room to multi-storey structures. In 2007, ABEL Air Conditioning Division began to expand its product line by introducing the Katashi range of air conditions and in May 2007, added the Carrier Generators to its product mix. Among its achievements in the recent past are air conditioning works at West Mall, ANSA Finance Building and Unicell Paper Mills. Most recently, ABEL Air Conditioning was awarded its largest contract ever for Park Court – the proposed RBTT banking centre located at St Clair Avenue. For this project, ABEL will supply 750 tons of air conditioning capacity in the form of two screw chillers with central station air handlers.