Sustainability · Responsible foundry

Keeping iron in the loop

A foundry runs on iron, sand, water and power. We treat all four as things to be kept in the cycle, not thrown out of it — that is how a workshop stays viable for three decades, and how it stays a good neighbour.

Kept in the cycle

Our practices

What we do with what's left over

Scrap recovery

Machining scrap is sold on, not dumped

Machining rolls produces large amounts of iron turnings and chips. All of it is collected, graded and sold to re-melters and steel makers — going straight back into new melt instead of landfill.
Roll buy-back

End-of-campaign rolls come home

Worn and rejected rolls are excellent furnace charge. We buy back end-of-life rolls from customers and re-melt them, closing the loop on our own product.
Sand reclamation

Moulding sand is used again and again

Foundry sand is reclaimed after each casting cycle, reconditioned and returned to the moulding line — only the fraction that can no longer be reconditioned is replaced.
Water

Cooling water runs in a closed loop

The water that cools our casting and machining operations is recirculated on site rather than drawn fresh and discharged — a settled, reused loop with minimal top-up.
Energy

Melting is planned, not repeated

Melt schedules are batched and charges planned so metal is melted once and poured once. Getting the chemistry right the first time is the biggest energy saving a foundry can make.
Community

Local hands, local suppliers

We hire and train in Malerkotla and source locally where we can — short supply lines, less transport, and three decades of skills kept in the city of rolls.

Why it matters

A roll is already a recycling story

Cast iron is one of the most recycled materials in the world, and a chilled roll spends its whole life inside that loop: it is cast largely from re-melted iron and steel, works for years in a mill, and when its campaign ends it goes back to the furnace as charge for the next generation. Our job is to keep that loop tight — inside our own works and for our customers — so that the material cost of every tonne rolled keeps falling.