H&K LAUNCHES COUNTRY’S FIRST "MADE-IN-INDIA"

4-STRAND SLIT THERMEX^® PIPE ASSEMBLY

4-Strand Slit Thermex Pipe in Operation at Mahalaxmi TMT, Wardha, Maharashtra.

In line with the Honorable Prime Minister’s "Make-in-India" initiative, H&K Rolling Mill Engineers Pvt. Ltd. has successfully commissioned its first indigenously manufactured 4-Strand Slit 'Thermex^® Quenching and Self-Tempering' Pipe Assembly at Mahalaxmi TMT Pvt. Ltd, Wardha, Maharashtra.

4-Strand Thermex Pipe Assembly at Workshop Before Dispatch

Mr. Franz Tamm, inventor of Thermex^®, the world’s leading Quenching & Self Tempering technology, congratulated H&K India on the successful transfer of slit-quenching technology from M/s Hennigsdorfer Stahl Engineering GmbH, Germany (HSE Germany) to H&K India, leading to the seamless commissioning of the country’s first "Made-in-India" 4-strand slit quenching pipe assembly.

The H&K India team, led by its Chairman, Mr. Raj Kumar Markan, undertook the entire engineering and manufacturing process in India, including equipment design, raw material procurement, machining, assembly, testing, and erection and commissioning in less than 5 months. It only took rolling of a few billets for successful commissioning of the Thermex^® 4-strand slit quenching pipe assembly for rebar size 8mm at Mahalaxmi’s bar mill at Wardha.

On testing, the 8mm Thermex^® rebars recorded stellar properties such as Grades 550 and 600 with 1.14-1.17 stress ratio and 20-23% elongation.

Mr. Markan commented, "I am delighted that H&K India continues in its aim to introduce relevant modern technologies to the Indian steel industry. We revolutionized the Indian market by introducing the concept of quenching and self-tempering at a time when the standard Indian practice was to use Cold Twisted Deformed bars of grade Fe 415. We introduced stop-start shears, Bundling-Binding Systems, grip tilters etc. in the Indian steel industry when we undertook the modernisation of the Durgapur Steel Plant and Kalyani Steel in 1990s.