Farming Steel Pipe Dispute Enters New Round of Battle

摘要

A local maker of farming steel pipes is reportedly preparing its application for new revision of the KS standards, entering a new round of offensive and defensive in the dispute with the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF) and the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) over the revision of the KS standards for farming steel pipes. With regard to the KS standards for farming steel pipes revised at the end of last year to set the new standards of zinc coating for farming steel pipes, an official at a steel pipe maker made strong opposition, saying, 'It is technically difficult to guarantee the thickness of zinc coating at the welded parts'.