K.L. RATHI STEELS LTD, incorporated in the year 1972 to take over the assests of erstwhile Rathi Steel Rolling Mills a family enterprise established in 1942 at Shahdara, Delhi, for production of steel bars and rods. The legacy has since been carried on and the family business has emerged as a trusted popular brand, “RATHI” registered in India. Infact, the steel rolling mill unit at Shahdara, was first in India to produce Cold Twisted Deformed Bars popularly known as “TOR STEEL” in 1967 under license from Tor Isteg Steel Corporation, Luxemburg, Europe, a premier organization for imparting technology for production of high strength steel bars.

The steel rolling mill unit continued its operation till 1996 in Delhi and thereafter under Hon’ble Supreme Court directions relocated at NOIDA EXTENSION Uttar Pradesh India with the latest technology and modernised mill. The new unit is a automatic and efficient to produce 2,00,000 tonnes per annum of HSD Bars (TMT Bars) and wire rods in sizes 8 mm to 32 mm. The unit has been licensed by Centre De Recherches Metallurgiques, Averue Ariane, 5 in B-1200, Brussels, Belgium, to use TEMPCORE technology and is producing and marketing HSD Bars (TMT Bars) in India under the registered brand name “THERMOQUENCH”.

The raw material and finished products are tested in computerized laboratory by experienced and specialised technicians for evaluating technical parameters. The steel rolling mill unit is registered with Bureau of Indian Standards, Ghaziabad as Group-I, re-rollers having licence No.CM/L/8331366/BIS/GZB for marking ISI on the finished products and has also obtained ISO 9001: 2000 Licence No. IN606-QC from TQCS International Pvt. Ltd., P.O. Box 483, Woodville SA 5011, Australia.