The manufacture of steel reinforcement rods is endangering the safety of construction projects in China, reported worldarchitecturenews.com.
The website says that a ‘stretching’ factory in Zhengzhou, where steel reinforcement rods used in a number of construction projects had been pulled to a thickness below regulatory standards has become the latest organisation to be found carrying out this practice.
A 10mm wide rods can be easily stretched to a thickness of 8.5mm, creating many additional metres of metal then sold on for profit.Despite countless assertions from experts that pulling these essential building components to inadequate diameters will weaken a structure and endanger the lives of its users, construction companies in China are still being found operating under such measures. A number of manufacturers have been ordered to stop this practice.
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