Bureau of Indian Standard, under Indian ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution’s, has published two orders No SO 2172(E) and 2173(E) on September 9th 2009 making BIS certification mandatory for many categories of steel. These orders are called Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) order 2008.
SO 2172(E) – With effect from September 12th 2008
| Indian Standard |
Title |
| 1785(Part 1) |
Plain hard drawn steel wire for pre stressed concrete- Part 1 -
Cold drawn stress relieved wire |
| 1785(Part 1) |
Plain hard drawn steel wire for pre stressed concrete- Part 2 - As
drawn wire |
| 5003 |
Indented wire for pre stressed concrete |
| 6005 |
Uncoated stress relieved strand for pre stressed concrete |
| 13620 |
Fusion bonded epoxy coated reinforcing bars |
| 14268 |
Uncoated stress relieved low relaxation seven ply strand for pre stressed
concrete |
SO 2173(E) – With effect from February 12th 2009
| Indian Standard |
Title |
| 277 |
Galvanized steel sheets (Plain and corrugated) |
| 648 |
Cold rolled non oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - Fully processed
type |
| 1786 |
High strength deformed steel bars and wires for concrete reinforcement |
| 1993 |
Cold reduced electrolytic tinplate |
| 2002 |
Steel plates for pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature
series including boilers |
| 2041 |
Steel plates for pressure vessels used at moderate and low temperature |
| 2062 |
Hot rolled low, medium and high tensile structural steel (Excluding bars &
rods of diameter or thickness less than 6mm and angle below 50x50x6mm |
| 2830 |
Carbon steel cast billets, ingots, blooms and slabs for rerolling into
steel for general structural purposes |
| 2831 |
Carbon steel cast billets, ingots, blooms and slabs for rerolling into low
tensile structural steel |
| 3024 |
Grain oriented electrical steel sheet and strip |
| 15391 |
Cold rolled non oriented electrical steel sheet and strip - Semi processed
type |
These orders prohibit manufacturing, storage, sale and distribution of certain steel products and the gist is as under
1. No person shall by himself or through any person on his behalf manufacture or store for sale, sell or distribute any steel and steel products, which do not conform to the specified standards and so not bear standard mark of BIS.
Provided that nothing in this order shall apply in relation to export of steel and steel products requited for export, which conform to any specification required by the foreign buyer and such specification shall not in any case be less than the specified standard.
2. The sub standard or defective steel and steel products which do not conform to the specified standard shall be disposed of as scrap
3. All manufacturers of steel and steel products shall make an application to the Bureau for obtaining license for use of the standard mark, if not already obtained
It is reported that some of the associations, representing user industries, are urging the government to defer implementation of this rule. Unconfirmed reports point to a possibility of 12 month extension in implementation date
Source : SteelGuru