The aluminium you buy becomes a certified product
The Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (Quality Control) Order, 2026, issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade on March 11, makes BIS certification compulsory across a list of aluminium products. For large and medium enterprises, ten of those standards take effect on December 1, roughly six weeks away.
What the ten cover
Bars, rods and sections for general engineering (IS 733), forging stock and forgings (IS 734), plate (IS 736), sheet and strip (IS 737), wire (IS 739) and rivet stock (IS 740).
Extruded round tube and hollow sections (IS 1285), wire for electrical purposes (IS 2067), alloys for utensil manufacture (IS 21), and bars, rods, tubes, sections, plates and sheets for electrical appliances (IS 5082).
Between them they cover most of the semi-finished aluminium a general engineering workshop buys, which is why this reaches further than the order's other categories such as irrigation tube, composite panel and pharmaceutical foil.
The dates that follow
Small enterprises come under it on 1 March 2027 and micro enterprises on 1 June 2027. Foreign manufacturers supplying these products need the same licence.
Products made exclusively for export sit outside the order.
Certification runs through testing at recognised laboratories, technical documentation and a factory inspection before a licence is issued, a process measured in months rather than weeks.
The bigger picture
This is the same direction as the hand tools order that took effect on October 1: mandatory standards moving out of finished consumer goods and into the industrial inputs factories buy. The practical consequence sits in procurement rather than production. From December, a large or medium buyer's aluminium supplier either holds a licence or does not, and that turns into a qualifying question on the purchase order rather than an assumption about quality.