Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited is said to have become the first company in the world to adopt the on line embossing of quality parameters on the strapping of its products in the light & medium merchant mill by commissioning the automatic strapping machine at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

The strapping machine also helps in easy identification of products quality wise at stockyards thereby avoiding mix up, pilferage and effective quality assurance with little or no re work. The strapping machine is supplied and installed by renowned ITW Signode, who is world leaders in strapping machines.

Mr PK Bishnoi CMD of RINL, while inaugurating the on line strapping machine, emphasized the need to acknowledge and respond to the requirements of the customer during the customer satisfaction year at RINL. He added that every year should be customer satisfaction year.

Mr Bishnoi assured the collective that RINL would adopt automation, but with a human face. He added that "Automation would not throw workers out of job and those displaced in the process of automation will be redeployed as contract workers in other areas of the existing plant and the new capacity coming up."