To take the lead in shaping the Indian construction market, with the focus on quality and efficiency, Jindal Panther has created a service to address the current issues of the industry.

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Construction is one of the pillars of domestic economy. Currently construction contributes about 6.9% of GDP. However, the industry is in need for modernization in a big way to rise-up to

the demands of customers, statute and at the same time ensuring safety of persons engaged and profitability of organization. Environmental issues are also required to be addressed.

Projects are widely seen as unpredictable in terms of on-time delivery, within budget and to the standards of quality expected. Both public sector and private sector in coming times will become much more demanding of construction in time to come.

In the present scenario, construction activity is labor intensive, full of uncertainties and often done in an unorganized way. Builders are also undiscriminating and still equate price with cost while selecting designers and constructors, which is almost exclusively on the basis of lowest tendered price.

Quality means not only zero defects but it also means delivery on-time and to budget, innovating for the benefit of the client and stripping out waste, whether it be in design, materials or construction on site.

The industry is typically dealing with the project process as a series of sequential and largely separate operations undertaken by individual designers, constructors and suppliers who have no stake in the long term success of the product and no commitment to it. Changing this culture is fundamental to increasing efficiency and quality in construction.

Long felt need to shift from above scenario to solutions facilitating customer’s delight & mutual benefits to both customers and constructors has becomes the need of the hour.

Ready to use Cut & Bent Rebars take lead in shaping the Indian Construction market

Although more than 90% of TMT Rebars are used as cut and bend during construction, most Rebars are supplied in the form of a 12m straight or bent bar. The requisite fabrication activities are then performed at the site leading to a host of inefficiencies due to various factors such as:• Non-availability of cheap manual labor employed at site for

cutting, bending, tying and fixing of Re-bars.• Lack of space at project sites.• Generation of scrap and consequently handling and disposal,

which is non-core activity for a constructor• Cost pressures on construction companies: finding ways and

means to reduce pilferage and wastage at siteTo take the lead in shaping the Indian construction market,

with the focus on quality and efficiency, Jindal Panther has created a service to address the issues listed above.

“Quick build is an end-to-end controlled process that brings the best quality TMT Rebars cut and bend accurately through a superior and fully automated process. This customer focus solution brings a cascading improvement in the way projects are executed by ensuring the reliability of steel supplies, bringing improvement inquality, compressing project schedules, improving the quality of construction,” explains Param Saxena, NSM - Long Products, JSPL.

Adds VK Mehta, Director, Sales & Marketing, JSPL, “With QuickBuild, we aim to provide improved and enhanced services to the construction sector. Made with the best quality steel and produced using cutting edge technology, products such as Cut & Bend rebars help in lowering the production

and financial cost. Being ready-to-use, Cut & Bend rebars are versatile, reduce wastage, entailing thus savings in financial costs as well as help reduce time required for construction. QuickBuild is JSPL’s answer to the modern world’s customized construction needs.”

Jindal Welded Mesh (JWM)

Use of Weldmesh eliminates activities like cutting, marking and spacing of bars and binding of wires to the bars. It provides an ideal and convenient solution with practical and functional advantages.Practical Advantage of Weld Mesh: Greater ability to work to achieve increased output with exact steel areas and spacing. Simplified drawings with easy checking without errors.For Site Supervisors: Simple design enables the placement and checking of steel, avoids wastage and scrap.For Contractors: Faster work and finish the task within deadline, reduced steel scrap generation, easy to read drawings and cross checking, achieve greater accuracy with less manpower.

Advantages of Processed Rebar solutions

• Lower production costs: The Cut and Bend process, traditionally performed at the construction site, requires between 40 - 60 man hour/t. By using processed Rebars, the cost of processing decreases considerably by approximately 30% of steel value, depending on the type of construction and diameters mix. Moreover, lower indirect costs are obtained through shorter construction time.

• Zero waste: There is usually a certain amount of waste

generated, which varies around 5 to10% (a mean value of 7% can be estimated). With the processed Rebars, customer pays for the theoretical blueprint weight only, and saves on wastage, processing and freight.

• Lower financial cost: Normally the bars are kept in storage for three weeks before using them. Add to this one week for procurement and one additional week for processing at the construction site, total lead time is 5 weeks. On the other hand, when buying processed Rebars, lead time is considerably shorter as the time required for the delivery of material at construction site is lesser, (5 weeks later than when buying the bars at the plant and bending at construction site).

• Elimination of storage: Material is ordered when needed and partial deliveries are programmed according to the concreting schedule. This results in lower financial cost, since the material gets to construction site ready to be assembled. Lesser space is also needed at the site, since no storage space is required for bars (60 sq m), nor for the cut and bend process (120 sq m).

• Simple, safe and operational: Since the whole cut and bend process is limited to ordering the material according to blueprints, handling of 12 m bars is eliminated, and neatness is improved, thus decreasing the risk of accidents as well as the eternal problem of bar thefts.

• Greater response capacity and delivery flexibility: You can speed-up the pace of your construction to comply with certification deadlines, or slow it down. E.g. in case of rain- simply by programming delivery dates with our Rebar processing plants at Patratu/Nalwa you can also decrease the construction time of the Reinforced Concrete structure.

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• Environmental benefits• Safety & Health• Improved working conditions• Cost reduction/ Waste elimination• Enhanced customer satisfaction• Improved profitability

• Quick-build Cut & Bend TMT bars solutions• Weld Mesh reinforcement applications• LBS (Light Building Structures)• LGS (Light Gauge Structures)• Speed Floor system• EPS (Extended Poly Styrene) Panels• JGRS (Jindal Global Road stabilizer)

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