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KEBS sets new standard for steel manufacture

Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has ordered manufacturers to cease the production and sale of sub-standard steel bars for construction.

The standards body said the trade of weak twisted steel bars will not be allowed from April next year in a move aimed at averting the perennial collapse of buildings in the country.

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