Ronquillo said Pisi conducted a two-day “market test-buy” to verify reports that substandard rebars were still being sold in the domestic market. ADVERTISEMENTUnderweightOf 14 hardware stores in the Central Luzon provinces from which Pisi bought steel bar samples from Feb. 28 to Mar. “This is obviously a burden not only for the legitimate rebar producers and manufacturers, but for consumers using substandard rebars without their knowledge,” Ronquillo said in the group’s report. “We have issued notices of violation against those found to be selling defective steel products,” Angeles said. Among the steel makers that Pisi identified in its report were Wan Chiong Steel, Real Steel, Metrodragon Steel, Phil Koktai and Merchant Steel.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 28, 2018 21:22 UTC