Stainless Steel Bars and rods (including Rounds, Flats Hexagons, Octagons, Wire rods, etc.), Angles, Shapes and Sections (including beams, joists, Channels, special profiles, etc.), Plates/ Sheets/Strips/wide Coils/ Blooms/ Billets, Slabs/Ingots, in any condition/ finish whether cast, Hot Rolled/Col - Standards of Input Output Norms (SION) - C. Engineering Products

C525 Stainless Steel (Excluding Exhaust Valve Steel ) Semi-finished Products (Blooms, Billets Slabs) and Ingots: 1Tonne 1 Major Inputs : In Kg (a) Non-alloy Steel Melting Scrap, Pig Iron, Sponge Iron including Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) As per Note 2. 2 Additives (Ferro Alloys/ Metals/ Compounds) : (In Kg per Kg. content of alloying element in the export product) (a)(i) Ferro Silicon (Si : 75%) 1.43 (a)(ii) High Carbon Ferro Manganese (Mn : 75%) OR 1.43 (a)(ii) Manganese Metal 1.04 (b) Charge Chrome, High Carbon Ferro Chrome (Cr : 60%) OR 1.79 (b) Low Carbon Ferro Chrome (Cr : 70%) 1.53 (c) Unwrought Nickel (Ni : 99%) OR 1.04 (c) Ferro Nickel, Nickel Oxide Sinter (Ni : 40%) 2.58 (d) Lead (Pb : 99%) Scrap/ Shots/ Wires/Powder in cored wire 1.60 (e) Ferro Molybdenum (Mo: 65%) OR 1.58 (e) Molybdenum Oxide (Mo : 60%) 1.89 (f) Ferro Titanium (Ti : 70%) 2.43 (g) Ferro Tungsten (W: 75%) 1.38 (h) Any other Nobel/ Special Ferro-alloys (Ferro Vanadium, Ferro Boron, Ferro Phosphorous, etc.) 1.38 (i) Any other Metal (not present in aforesaid ferro-alloys) in unwrought or wrought form or in powder form or powders in cored wires 1.04 (j) Sulphur stick / Sulphur powder in cored wire 2.00 3 Consumables/ Misc. Inputs : In kgs (a) Ferro-Silicon (Si: 75%) ( for de-oxidation/ Reduction) 20 (b) Graphite Electrodes (For units with EAF Furnace only) 4 (c) Relevant CI, Steel Rolls for Hot Rolling Mill/Continuous Casting Machine (against export of rolled products only) 0.6 (d) Relevant Copper lined Moulds, Copper Moulds/ Tubes for Continuous Casting (if export product is produced through Continuous Casting route with/ without further rolling) 0.01 (e) Casting Powder 1 (f) Aluminium wires, Notched bars, scraps, shots, ingots, Dross, Powder in Cored Wire and Ferro Aluminium 2 (g) CaSi Lumps, CaF Lumps, Powder of CaFeAl, caf , CaSi in Cored wire 0.1 (h) Rolling Mill Oil, Hydraulic Oil, Lubricating Oil (against export of rolled products only) 0.5 (i)Celox Inserts, Temperature Tips, Oxygen Probes, Sampler Probes, Sampler Tips 0.1 (j) Relevant Shear Blades, Saw Blades 0.01 (k) Oxygen Lance pipes, Sub-merged tuyers, Atmospheric injector 0.1 (l) Calcium Carbide 0.5 (m) Low silica Calcined lime/ lime stone 100 (n) Refractories: i) Relevant Shaped Refractories ( Fired/Un-fired Bricks/Shapes) 20 ii) Relevant Monolithic Refractories (including Castables, ramming mass, gunning mixes) 4 iii) Relevant Special Refractories i.e. C.C. refractory (Shrouds, Mono Block Stopper, SE Nozzles), Slide Gate refractory, Porous Plug, Zircon/ Zirconia Nozzles Tundish Nozzles 1 (o) Calcined /Raw Petroleum coke 10 4 Energy Sources: (a) Relevant fuel for electric power for Steel making and Auxiliaries (for units with captive power plant/ source only) 10,00,500 K. Cal (b) Relevant Lubricant for captive power plant 1 kg (c) Relevant fuel for fuel fired re-heating furnace(if only if export product is supplied in rolled condition) 2,61,000 K. Cal (d) Relevant fuel for electric power for hot rolling mill auxiliaries (if only if export product is supplied in rolled condition) 2,17,500 K. Cal (e) Relevant fuel for ladle / tundish/ ferro-alloy heating 35,000 K. Cal (f) Relevant fuel for Boilers for VOD ( to units having VOD facilities only) 1,30,500 K. Cal Note 1 : This norm is applicable for export product manufactured adopting Electric Arc Furnace/ Electric Induction Furnace using Non-alloy Steel Melting Scrap as the basic input. Note 2 : The total quantity of imported inputs allowed against Sl.No. 1(a) and Sl No 2 shall be limited to 1115 Kg. Further, individual quantity of Pig Iron and Sponge Iron/ HBI allowed against Sl. No. 1(a), if any, shall not exceed 20% and 65% respectively of the total quantity of items to be permitted therein. Note 3: Quantities of Ferro Alloys/Metals/Compounds have been worked out based on a specified percentage of alloying element in the Ferro Alloys/Metals/Compounds as indicated therein within the parenthesis against each alloy. If the percentage of alloying element in the ferro-alloy is higher/ lower, the revised (i.e lower / higher) quantity may be worked out on pro-rata basis as under: Quantity permitted in norm x % of element in ferroalloy/metal/compound as per the norm Actual % of element in the imported ferroalloy/metal/compound Note 4 : For a given alloying element in steel, wherever two alternate ferroalloy / metals /compound of the same alloying element have been permitted and it is proposed to import a combination of both, individual quantities of each ferro-alloy may be worked out based on the specified (part) quantities of the alloying element in two forms (but within the overall quantity of alloying element in the steel), using the content based formula given therein. Note 5: Alloying element(s) in steel is/are prescribed by specifying the minimum value or a range or the maximum value. For calculating the quantities of ferro alloys/ metals/ compounds as per the content based formula given in the SION, the prescribed minimum or the mid value of the range or 0.8 times the maximum value of the respective alloying element(s) in the export product shall be taken into consideration. 1 [ Note 6: Import of Stainless Steel Melting Scrap of known chemical composition may be permitted within the overall quantity of item no. 1(a) but upto 90% to Induction Furnace units having AOD/VOD facilities and Electric Furnace units. For units having Induction Furnaces without AOD/VOD, import of stainless steel melting scrap will however, be permitted within the overall quantity of item No. 1(a) but upto 60% only. Only such grade of Stainless Steel Melting Scrap will be allowed that is relevant to the export product. In such a case, quantity of respective ferroalloy/metal to be allowed as per formula at Sl.No. 2 will have to be reduced to account for the recoverable alloying element(s) (Nickel, Copper, Chromium and Vanadium) present in the stainless steel scrap. The reduced quantity of these ferroalloys/metals shall be obtained by deducting the equivalent quantity of ferroalloy/metal to be obtained using the following formula from the total quantity to be worked out as per formula at Sl. No. 2 in the SION read with Note 3: Alloy Steel Scrap Quantity (kg) x % of relevant element in scrap ______________________________________________________ 1.115 x % of relevant element in ferroalloy/metal/compoun d] Note 7: The specified quantities of energy sources/ fuel for electric power generation(in K.Cal) against import item 4(a) 4(c) which correspond to electric power consumption of 500 and 100 KWH per tonne of export product have been allowed assuming that Captive Power Plant (CPP)/Source of matching capacity exist. In case CPP/source in a given unit is of lower capacity, quantity of fuel to be allowed for import will be reduced on pro rata basis. Note 8: Quantity of energy sources/ fuels (in K.Cal) correspond to a fuel having unit heat value of 8700 K.Cal. Import of any other fuel of higher/lower unit heat value (as long as it is relevant to the facilities installed in the unit) may be permitted, quantity of which (in Kgs./ Cubic Meters/ K. Liters) may be worked out by dividing the K.Cal figures given in the SION by the actual unit heat value of the imported fuel. Note 9 : Import of items at Sl.No. 3(b), (c), (d), (i), CC Refractories under 3(n) (iii) and 4(c) shall not be permitted against export of steel ingots. Note 10 : The Item "Low Carbon Ferro Chrome" under 2(b) above is to be allowed only to manufacturers not having Argon Oxygen Decarburisation (AOD) and Vacuum Oxygen decarburization (VOD) . However, this input may be allowed @ 80 kg (max) to units with only VOD facilities and @10 Kgs (max) to units with only AOD facilities. --------------------------------------- Notes:- 1. Amended vide Public Notice No. 150 dated 25.02.2009 before amended it was read as:- Note 6: Import of Stainless Steel Melting Scrap of known chemical composition may be permitted within the overall quantity of item no. 1(a) but up to 60% and 90% respectively to Induction Furnace and Electric Furnace based units. In such a case, quantity of respective ferroalloy/metal to be allowed as per formula at Sl.No. 2 will have to be reduced to account for the recoverable alloying element(s) (Nickel, Copper, Chromium and Vanadium) present in the stainless steel scrap. The reduced quantity of these ferroalloys/metals shall be obtained by deducting the equivalent quantity of ferroalloy/metal to be obtained using the following formula from the total quantity to be worked out as per formula at Sl. No. 2 in the SION read with Note 3: Alloy Steel Scrap Quantity (kg) x % of relevant element in scrap ______________________________________________________ 1.115 x % of relevant element in ferroalloy/metal/compound