BIS Implement Product Certification For Steel
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will implement mandatory product certification for 17 steel items from August 12. It organised an awareness programme here on Friday in this regard. According to Varghese Joy, Director and Head of the Coimbatore chapter of the BIS, the Central Government has published steel and steel products (Quality Control) order, 2007 in a recent notification and 17 steel products used for power distribution, health and safety, infrastructure and construction and storage and cooking of food products are brought under mandatory product certification. These were enjoying voluntary certification option so far. “The Coimbatore office covers Coimbatore, Erode and the Nilgiris Districts and the main product made here is tor steel. There are six manufacturers and nine licensees here already for this,” he said. Across the country, there were 800 licences operating for steel products. The BIS had 33 branch offices in the country and some of them had laboratories too. The manufacturers had the option of getting the products certified in an approved laboratory and producing the report and a sample. Normally, for mandatory certification, the BIS would collect the sample and test it.
