MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

 

Report Date :

25.09.2008

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SHANTI IRON AND STEEL

 

 

Registered Office :

# 690, Udyambag Industrial Estate, Belgaum-590008, Karnataka

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Financials (as on) :

31.03.2008

 

 

Year of Establishment :

1.07.1974

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

BLRS05965B

 

 

Legal Form :

Partnership Concern with Unlimited Liability of the Partners

 

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturer of Ready –to – assemble graded Grey Iron Components for use in Diesel Engine, Tractor and Machine Tool Industries

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

 

Maximum Credit Limit :

USD 150000

 

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Subject is a well established and reputed concern meeting its normal commitments timeously. Trade relations are fair. Business is active.

 

The concern can be considered good for normal business dealings.

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office/

Factory :

# 690, Udyambag Industrial Estate, Belgaum-590008, Karnataka, India

Tel. No.:

91-831-2440972

Mobile No.:

91-831-2440975

E-Mail :

marketing@shantiiron.net

Website:

http://www.shantiiron.com

Area:

170000 sq.ft

Note:

Fully Equipped with required Plant and Machinery, In House R and D set up, Laboratory, Furnaces, Mechanised sand Plant, Vertical Machining Centre, CMM Machines etc.

 

 

PARTNERS

 

Name :

Mr. Santosh K Porwal

Designation :

Partner

 

 

Name :

Mr. Kantilal V Porwal

Designation :

Partner

 

 

Name :

Mr. Shantilal V Porwal

Designation :

Partner

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mr. Kantilala V Porwal

Designation :

Finanance

E Mail :

kvp@shantiiron.net

 

 

Name :

Mr. Shantilal V Porwal

Designation :

Operations

E Mail :

svp@shantiiron.net

 

 

Name :

Mt. Santosh K Porwal

Designation :

Marketing

E Mail :

skp@shantiiron.net

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Manufacturer of Ready –to – assemble graded Grey Iron Components for use in Diesel Engine, Tractor and Machine Tool Industries

 

 

Exports :

 

Countries :

·         Finland

·         Italy

 

 

Imports :

 

Products :

Machinery

Countries :

·         Italy

·         Taiwan

·         Japan

·         Germany

 

 

Terms :

 

Selling :

Credit ( 60 Days)

 

 

Purchasing :

Credit ( 30 Days)

 

PRODUCTION STATUS

 

Particulars

Unit

 

 

Actual Production

Ready –to – assemble graded Grey Iron Components

MT

 

 

6000

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Suppliers :

·         Makino

·         Hittachi Seiki

·         Mario Carnagh

·         Batliboi

·         Sesa Goa Limited

·         Kirloskar Ferrous

 

 

Customers :

·         Otis Lifts

·         Addison and Company Limited

·         Kirloskar Wartsila

·         New Holland

·         Manugraph

·         SAME Tractor

·         Victory Electromech

·         PRAGATI

 

 

No. of Employees :

300

 

 

Bankers :

Canara Bank, Tilakwadi Branch, Belgaum

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

--

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

Not Disclosed

 

 

Memberships :

·         Indian Iron Foundrey Association

·         Engineering Export Promotion Council

·         Indo German Chamber of Commerce

 


 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Capital Investment :

 

Owned :

Rs. 30.000 Millions

Borrowed :

--

Total :

Rs. 30.000 Millions

 

 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

Particulars

 

 

31.03.2008

31.03.2007

Sales Turnover

 

270.000

190.000

 

 

 

 

Export Value

 

25.000

20.000

 

 

 

 

Import Value

 

15.000

9.500

 

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

AS PER WEBSITE

 

History:

 

1974     Company was established with production of grey iron only.

1990     Expansion of foundry-unit II in same premises.

2000     Expansion into higher value addition. First (CNC Machine) installed.

2001     Received ISO 9002:1994 certificate from TUV Rheinland.

2001     Mechanization of foundry with machine moulding, sand plant and mould conveying system.

2002     Second VMC Machine installed.

2003     Fully automatic Cold Box, core shooter installed.

2003     ISO Certification upgraded from ISO 9002:1994 to ISO 9001:2000.

2005     State of art new HMC Makino a61 installed along with CNC CMM.

2006      2nd HMC a51 Makino Machine Installed

2007     Foundry Capacity Expansion. Phase-II

2007     3rd HMC Makino a61 Machine installed

 

 

Process Control

 

Quality Assurance in Incoming Material

 

 All the raw materials of production, including customer supplied products are inspected & tested before handing over to the production department. All the raw materials are procured from the approved suppliers only. Raw materials, customer supplied products like pattern and jigs & fixtures are checked in house while gauges & instruments are calibrated by approved external calibration agency. All the above are accepted or rejected as per respective quality plans. Only accepted material will be stored at identified locations.

 

 Quality Assurance in moulding:

 

 Basically four types of molding process are followed

 

  1.  Green sand molding
  2.  Dry sand molding
  3. CO2 molding
  4.  No bake molding

 

Moulding is carried out by machine molding and hand molding. Machine moulding bay is completely mechanized with six moulding machine, sand plant. 20TPH and mechanized mould conveying system with numetic line pushers. All the above process are subjected to inspection right from sand preparation to molding, as per the respective quality plans. If any deviation are noticed beyond the specified limit, the molds are rejected after Inspection. After molding, spirit based graphite paint is applied to the mould to achieve better finish.

 

Quality Assurance in Melting

 

 Melting is carried out in medium frequency induction furnace, Cupola and duplexing as per customers requirement. In al l cases charge mix are weighted before charging. Before pouring temperature, chill test and C.E. meter reading are taken if found within acceptance criteria then the liquid metal is poured. If furnace and duplexing for next charge in case of cupola, deviated metal of cupola is pegged in ingot molds. During pouring metal temperature and pouring time are recorded are quality plans.

 

Quality Assurance in Core Making

 

 There are three process in core making namely,


1. Cold Box

2. Oil Sand

3. No Bake


Cold box Core making is done on compax make fully automatic cold box core shooter with capacity 50 litre machine. The entire system of sand drying feeding into mix sand preparation dozing and feeding into machine is machanised. Core process is also subjected to inspection, right from core sand preparation to core making, as per the respective Quality plans. If any deviations are noticed there the Cores are rejected. Every casting is identified as per the following coding system:

 

SIS, XX, Y, ZZ, M.

 

SIS - Shanti Iron & Steel

XX - year i.e. 00 for 2000, 01 for 2001 etc

Y - Month A for Jan, B for Feb

ZZ - running heat no, 01, 02, 03, of the month

M - moulder's code - (A,B,C, for unit 2) (1,2,3, for unit 1)

 

Quality Assurance in Fettling:

 

 Fettling department carry out knockout decoring, shot blasting and fettling. Inspection is carried after knockout and also after fettling as per the respective quality plans. Templates are used for inspecting profile of casting and availability of machining allowances.

 

After fettling, painting process or stress relieving is carried out as per the requirement specification of the customers.

 

 Quality Assurance in Stress Relieving

 

 Stress relieving is treated as a special process and gauges are calibrated to certify as process cycle is closely monitored and required are mentioned.

 

Quality Assurance in machining & CNC Machining

 

 All the machining operations are carried out as per the respective process charts. Process charts addresses  operation jig & fixtures to be used, instruments and gauge to be used for inspection, specified dimension, frequency of check and special instruction if any.

 

All the instruments and gauges are periodically calibrated as per the schedule from the approved calibration agency

 

Quality assurance in final inspection

 

 All the machined components are checked as per the quality plan of final inspection, so as to ensure the components meet all the specification of the customer. After the final inspection, the components are packed as per the instructions of the customer. Material Test Certificate, test bar and inspection report accompany with every dispatch.

 

Power Supply

 

The company has 500 KVA of high tension line. To compensate for power cuts, it has provision of running the entire unit uninterrupted on the following generations:

 

 " Cummins make 285 KVA - 1No.

 " Kirloskar make 125 KVA -  1 No.

 " Kirloskar make 62.5 KVA - 1 Nos. 

 " Cummins make 62.5 KVA - 1 Nos.

 " Kirloskar make 140 KVA   - 1 Nos.

 

 Maintenance

 

To keep all the machines and equipments in good working conditions, they have experienced team of electrical and mechanical personnel's. Maintenance department carryout preventive maintenance as per the schedule. The department also attend breakdown maintenance. Records are analyzed half yearly and action plan make so as to reduce the over all breakdown time.

 

 Quality Management System

 

The company works on the principal of continues improvement. Each department are given objective goals in a respective work areas with a view to eliminate or minimize it, so as to meet the overall companies quality policy and resulting into improvement of quality management system

 

 

 


CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No records exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.45.83

UK Pound

1

Rs.84.90

Euro

1

Rs.67.26

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

6

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

5

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

5

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

6

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

4

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

6

--LEVERAGE

1~10

6

--RESERVES

1~10

5

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

5

--MARGINS

-5~5

--

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

YES

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

YES

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

48

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

 

 

 

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