From January 1, 2018 Russia will get the new interstate GOST 34028-2016 “Rolled reinforced bars for ferroconcrete structures. Technical conditions”, which will replace the current standards.
According to the Center of standardization and metal products certification of the Research institute on ferrous metallurgy named after Bardin, the new GOST sets obligatory characteristics, which the rebars have to correspond to: diameter, geometry, chemical composition of steel, surface quality, mechanical characteristics, packing, marking, etc.
The new standard will unify the market, as it will be the sole basic document. But depending on their need customers will be able to order products with special technical characteristics suiting their goals. (Ukrainian metal)
