TESTING LABORATORY ROURKELA 1. Background: Keeping in view of the growing demand of quality of the products of the industries, Govt. has established Testing Laboratory, Rourkela, under the Directorate of export Promotion & Marketing, Industries Deptt. Govt. of Orissa, in the year 1968. The laboratory is functioning on its own land & building near Industrial estate, Rourkela facing ring road. The laboratory was established mainly to provide testing facilities to the ancillary and down stream industries of Rourkela steel plant and SSI units of western zone of Orissa. As this belt is full of ores and minerals, this laboratory has facilities for testing the ores & minerals & other metallurgical products. Besides SSI units the testing facilities of the laboratory is being utilised by Govt. organisations like R & B, PWD, National Highway, D G S & D and public sector undertakings like NALCO, MCL, OSHB, OWSSB, IOL etc. In addition to the above testing facilities of this laboratory are regularly utilised by private organisations like ORIND, IDL, L & T, OCL, Contractors, consultants and exporters. This laboratory undertakes testing of raw materials & finished products of SSI units for manufacture of quality products. Presently this laboratory has testing facilities for the following areas of testing: (i) Physical (ii) Chemical & Paints (iii) NDT & metallurgical (iv) Civil (v) Electrical 2. Objectives : To upgrade & modernize the existing testing facilities and quality system of the laboratory as per NABL guidelines & accord their accreditation which is the apex body in India, set up under Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India to grant credibility of Testing laboratory in the Country. To get accreditation of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), for providing testing facilities for BIS licensed products.
To provide testing facilities to the industries of this region at their doorstep. To provide testing facilities to the exporters of this region at their door step for exporting their products with single window testing facility. To provide testing facility for third party certification of stores inspected by Inspection Agencies in different purchasing organisation. To upgrade & modernise the existing testing machines & equipments, infrastructure, staff pattern and to procure latest test equipments and to fully computerise the Quality system of the laboratory for providing best possible test services. To promote quality of stores manufactured in the industries and to help in procurement of quality stores by Govt. Deptt. & other purchasing organisations. To promote quality awareness in the manufacturing sector as well as purchasing organisations. To accord recognition of the laboratory by Export houses, Big business houses, & accord ISO certification of the Quality system of the laboratory. Contact Person: 1. Senior Scientific Officer Tel. Phone No: 0661-2504681(O) ress for communication: 2. Scientific Officer Tel. Phone No: 0661-2504681(O) 1. Postal Address: Testing Laboratory, Industrial Estate, Rourkela-4 2. FAX : 0661-2504681
EXISTING TESTING FACILITY NEED UPGRADATION & COMPLETE TESTING FACILITY Sl. No. Name of the Item ISS No. 1. Structural Steel (ordinary quality) IS: 1977 2. Structural Steel (standard quality) IS: 2062 3. Structural Steel (fusion welding) IS: 2062 4. Cold Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet IS: 513 5. Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet IS: 1079 6. High Strength deformed steel bar IS: 1786 7. Bright bar IS: 9550 8. Steel Plate IS: 3431 9. Hot Rolled Steel Sections IS: 7452 10. Grey Iron Castings IS: 210 11. Carbon Steel Casting IS: 2707 12. Structural Steel (high tensile) IS: 961 13. Steel tube for furniture purposes IS: 7138 14. Mild Steel & Medium tensile Steel Bar IS: 432 (Pt-I) 15. Hard drawn Steel wire IS: 432 (Pt-II) 16. Steel wire IS: 280 17. Steel tube for structural purposes IS: 1161 18. Mild steel tubes IS: 1239 (Pt-1) 19. M.S/G.I Socket IS: 1239 (Pt-II) 20. Hook Bolt for Corrugated sheet roofing IS: 730 21. Slotted counted sunk head wood screw IS: 6760 22. Black hexagonal nuts & bolts & screw IS: 1363 23. Foundation bolt IS: 5621 24. T Bolt IS: 2014 25. Wood Screw IS: 451 26. Steel counter sunk head wire nail IS: 723 27. Rivets IS: 1929 28. Hexagonal wire netting IS: 3150
29. Expanded metal steel sheet IS: 412 30. Galvanized steel chain link. IS: 2721 31. Tower Bolt, Ferrous IS: 204 (Pt-I) 32. Tower bolt, non ferrous IS: 204 (Pt-II) 33. M.S. Aldrop IS: 281 34. Al Aldrop IS: 2681 35. Steel Butt Hinge IS: 1341 36. MS / Al Handles IS: 208 37. G.I. Barbed wire IS: 278 38. Steel Door / Window / Ventilators IS: 1038 39. Galvanized Insulator Pin IS: 2486 (Pt-I&II) 40. G.I. Stay wire IS: 2141 41. Sand Cast Iron Spigot & Socket pipe & Fitting IS: 1729 42. C.I. double flange pipe for gases & sewage IS: 7181 43. C.I. Fittings for pressure pipes IS: 1538 44. C.I. Spun Pipes IS: 1536 45. C.I. Manhole Cover IS: 1726 46. Flushing Cistern IS: 774 47. Stoneware pipes IS: 651 48. Rolling Shutter IS: 6248 49. Collapsible Gate IS: 1054 50. Steel shelving Cabinet IS: 3312 51. Steel Rack IS: 1883 52. Metal Table (office type) IS: 3498 53. Composite Office Table IS: 8126 54. Steel Chair for General Office Purpose IS: 3499 (Pt-I) 55. Hospital Bed IS: 5029 56. Fusion welding Joints IS: 3600 57. Clay Building Bricks IS: 1077 58. Acid Resistance Bricks IS: 4860 59. Fly-ash Bricks IS: 12894
60. Refractory Bricks IS: 6, IS. 7, IS: 8 61. Cement concrete hollow blocks IS: 2185 62. Concrete cubes IS: 456 63. Cement Concrete Flooring Tiles IS: 1237 64. Ordinary Portland Cement IS: 269 65. Portland Slag Cement IS: 455 66. Fly-ash based pozzolana Cement IS: 1484 (Pt-I) 67. 43 Grade ordinary Portland cement IS: 8112 68. 53 Grade ordinary Portland cement IS: 12269 69. Coarse & Fine aggregate IS: 383 70. Cement Water proofing compound IS: 2645 71. R.M. Paint Brushing IS: 110 72. Enamel Interior IS: 133 73. R.M. Paint, brushing, bituminous, black, lead free acid, IS: 158 alkali & heat resistance 74. Road making paint IS: 164 75. Aluminum paint in dual container IS: 2339 76. R.M. Paint for general purpose IS: 168, IS: 641 77. Synthetic enamel, interior finishing IS: 2932 78. Enamel Exterior IS: 2933 79. Distemper, dry IS: 427 80. Distemper Oil emulsion IS: 428 81. Anticorrosive paint for ship bottoms IS: 1404 82. Red oxide Zinc Chrome Primer IS: 2074 83. French Polish IS: 348 84. Cement Paint IS: 5410 85. Plastic Emulsion Paint IS: 5411 (Pt-I&II) 86. Wood Primer, Ready mixed Pink IS: 3536 87. Black Bituminous Paint, acid, alkali, water & chlorine IS: 9862 resisting 88. Chemical analysis of steel IS: 228
89. Chemical analysis of Brass, Bronze, Gunmetal IS: 3685, IS: 4826 90. Chemical analysis of Al. & Al. alloy IS: 504 91. Uniformity in coating on Zinc coated articles IS: 1868 92. Hot dipped galvanized Coated articles IS: 2629, IS: 4826 93. Anodic Coating on Aluminium articles IS: 1868 94. Brass sheet, Strip IS: 410 95. Leaded tin bronze casting IS: 318 96. High Tensile brass rods & sections IS: 320 97. Brass tube for general purpose IS: 407 98. Copper sheet & strips for utensils IS: 1550 99. Copper rods for general Engg. purpose IS: 4171 100. High tensile brass castings IS: 304