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March 2012
Kaizen providing quality steel
for CV body-building
Kaizen Cold Formed Steel (CFS)
Pvt. Ltd., set up by two young en-
trepreneurs, Mr. Raghav Saraf and
Mr. Rahul Saraf, in 2009, has an en-
gineering steel yard in Chennai with
3000 to 4000 tonnes of steel in stock
to cater to the OEM needs with its
range of quality steel.
Kaizen offers steel of thickness
0.5 mm to 15 mm, and the various
grades include S420 MC, S500 MC,
S690 QL, S960, wear-resistant plates
like Hardox and Domex Wear. Its
customer base includes OEMs and
major application builders.
The company is focused on the re-
placement market as well and is con-
fident that the customer would have
benefits of higher fuel efficiency,
lower maintenance cost, easy work-
ability, longer life and a very short
payback period with its products.
Kaizen products find application
in a wide range of fields, including
automobiles, engineering, bulk han-
dling equipment (heavy machines),
mining equipment, grinders, materi-
al-handling equipment and precision
components. The company intends
to introduce these products for body
builders across the country and is
confident that the efficient working
economies would help reap rich div-
idends. It also has plans to produce
readymade kits for trailers, tippers,
tip-trailers and flatbed trailers.
The company believes that there
are numerous advantages of us-
ing high-strength steel for making
truck and tip-trailer bodies. After
a heady growth of 40 per cent and
31 per cent respectively in 2009-10
and 2010-11, demand is likely to
stabilize at around 12-15 per cent in
2011-12. The buoyant freight rent-
als augur well for the CV industry,
but the bane, though, is the rampant
overloading of vehicles which leads
to frequent breakdowns and tussle
with the law.
In India, CV bodies are built using
Component zone
High Strength Steel (HSS)
confers huge advantag-
es through incremental
payload carrying ability,
longer body life and the
consequent economic ad-
vantages.