Jindal Panther has created a service called Quick Build to address issues in the Indian construction industry like labor shortages, lack of space on sites, and waste. Quick Build provides accurately cut and bent TMT rebar through an automated process, bringing improvements like more reliable supplies, better quality, faster schedules, and improved construction. It aims to enhance services and provide ready-to-use cut and bent rebar to help lower costs and reduce construction time.

1. 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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onstruction 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
thedemandsofcustomers,statuteandatthesametimeensuring
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
aseriesofsequentialandlargelyseparateoperationsundertaken
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 site
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 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,bringingimprovementinquality,compressingproject
schedules, improving the quality of construction,” explains
Param Saxena, NSM - Long Products, JSPL.
Adds VK Mehta, Director, Sales Marketing, JSPL,
“WithQuickBuild,weaimtoprovideimprovedandenhanced
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.
QuickBuildisJSPL’sanswertothemodernworld’scustomized
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
andcrosschecking,achievegreateraccuracywithlessmanpower.
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
whenbuyingthebarsattheplantandbendingatconstruction
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.
By Invitation
Need for Speed
CONSTRUCTION
• 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)
Need for speed in the construction
JSPL’s offerings