Superior Quality, Superior Production
Shams Madina Steel Mill melts, rolls and tests reinforcement bar and structural sections at Shorandam Industrial Park. Four ISO certifications, two in-house laboratories, and a roll mark on every bar we ship.
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Running
Scrap yardMelt shopCasterRolling millDispatch01Who we are
Shams Madina Steel Mill began production in 1402 (2023) and is today one of Afghanistan's best-equipped producers of steel sections. The plant runs two shifts, employs around 600 people directly and supports roughly 1,000 more indirectly.
Our steel goes into housing, markets, townships, and government and private projects across the country. Chemistry is set at the furnace with a spectrometer, and every finished product is pulled, bent and recorded in our physical laboratory before it is allowed to leave the gate.
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People employed directly
~1,000 more indirectly
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ISO standards certified
9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 630-1
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Largest rebar rolled
From 8 mm up, Grade 60+
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Shifts per day
Melt shop and rolling line
Registered
Shams Madina Sanati Company with the Standard and Quality Authority of Afghanistan — registration 80907, TIN 9015345433.
02What we make
From 8 mm rebar to 150 mm angle iron, nails, mesh and copper cable — every line in the group starts from steel we melt and control ourselves.
03How it is made
Four stages, each with a hold point. Nothing moves to the next stage until the last one is signed off.
01How it is made
Scrap and sponge iron are sorted and charged. During the melt, a spectrometer reads every chemical element in the bath; anything low is added, anything high is burned off before tapping.
Chemical composition
In specSMSASTM A615
02How it is made
Liquid steel is continuously cast into billet, cooled, inspected for surface defects and charged into the reheat furnace at rolling temperature.
Caster
Surface check03How it is made
Billet passes through the roughing and finishing stands to final section. The SMS roll mark, grade and diameter are pressed into every bar.
Stands
Pass lineDiameter
04How it is made
Samples are pulled on the universal testing machine for yield, tensile and elongation, then bent 180°. No product leaves the factory without a passing result on file.
Tensile test
LiveYield
450 MPa
Tensile
640 MPa
04The proof
Our own minimums are set above ASTM A615. These are achieved values from third-party laboratory reports on production bar — Afghan Renewal Geotechnical Laboratory and Real Eiffel Engineering, July 2026.
Yield strength, our minimum
450MPa
ASTM A615 requires 420
Tensile strength, our minimum
640MPa
ASTM A615 requires 620
Elongation, our minimum
15%
ASTM A615 requires 7–9%
180° bend test
Pass
Every diameter, every heat
Two laboratories
During melting, a spectrometer analyses every chemical element in the iron. If an element is below the set limit, the required amount is added; if it is above, it is adjusted down through the technical process. A shortfall or an excess of any element changes the quality of the bar, the girder and everything else, so the melt is tested continuously rather than once.
After production, every product is tested on the universal testing machine. For rebar that means grade, tensile resistance, strength, bending, elongation and the other physical characteristics. Sections and other steel products are assessed on size, weight, strength and material quality. Our basic policy is simple: no product is offered to the market without laboratory approval — only material that has passed its tests is allowed to leave the factory.
05Environment
Two large filtration units scrub the melt shop's exhaust. Carbon is captured as powder and stored rather than released — the most advanced carbon-capture installation of its kind in Afghanistan.
200,000m³
Polluted air filtered per 24 hours
2,000kg
Carbon powder captured per 24 hours
1MW
Power drawn by the filtration system
2
Large filtration units installed
06Certification
Four management-system and product standards, certified by UK Certification & Inspection and valid to January 2028.
Quality Management System
Environmental Management System
Occupational Health & Safety
Structural Steels — Part 1
07The plant
A melt shop, a rolling line, a section mill, a nail and mesh plant, a copper cable factory and two laboratories — on one site, under one management system.
Get in touch
Send your bar schedule, diameters and delivery point. Quotes go out with a copy of the latest mill test certificate for the sizes you need.
