The Shankar Group’s flagship company Jagadamba Steels has launched a brand new product, Rhino Steel Rebar, in Fe 500D grade with guaranteed ductility in the Nepali market. Rhino 500D is a new generation, high strength and ductile ribbed reinforcement bar.

The new steel rebar is different from other rebars in the way it has been manufactured and in its combination of both physical and chemical properties. Rhino Steel Rebar in grade Fe 500D comes with a combined restriction of impurities like sulphur and phosphorous to a maximum of 0.075 percent which ensures higher strength and ductility in the rebar.

“Jagadamba Steel has introduced Rhino 500D high ductile steel rebar to cater to the big challenge of safe and earthquake-resistant construction,” said Shahil Agrawal, managing director of the Shankar Group at the launching programme.

“Given the higher ductility

and strength, Rhino 500D Rebar

is ideally suitable for application in Nepal, considering the high seismic risk potential,” said the company.

“It is  highly recommended for applications in construction ranging from small individual houses to large infrastructure projects and is ideally suitable for high-rise buildings, bridges, flyovers and dams, foundation of wind turbines, industrial structures, concrete roads, underground structures such as tunnels, and thermal and hydroelectric power stations.”

Rhino 500D Rebar is available in sizes 8 mm and up to 32 mm through exclusive retail points spread across Nepal. It is also available in 36 mm and 40 mm sizes as per customer/project requirements. Each rebar is supplied in a fixed length of 12 metres to ensure standard processing and thereby causing less wastage during fabrication.

All the products from Jagadamba Steels are manufactured in state-of-the-art automated plants with a prime focus on maintaining the highest standards in quality and make, the company said in a statement. “For this, the company follows a stringent three-level process of controlled raw materials, controlled production process and controlled parameters,” the company said.

According to Jagadamba Steels, raw materials are imported exclusively from world class steel companies like Tata Steel, Jindal Steel, IISCO and SAIL to ensure high quality of the products.