Earthing & Grounding Systems
Importers in Nairobi

Earthing rods, plates, pipes and strip sit under HSN 7326 or 7409/7408 and carry 18% GST within India. That doesn't touch an export order. Shipments go out under an LUT with no IGST charged, or with IGST paid and then refunded to us. What lands on your invoice is the FOB or CIF price plus whatever import duty your own country applies.

Copper-bonded rod, a steel core with roughly 250 µm of electrodeposited copper, is the international default. It gives steel's tensile strength and copper's conductivity for a fraction of solid copper's price. GI pipe electrodes suit high-resistivity soil and IS 3043 Type-A compliance on tighter budgets. Solid copper is reserved for aggressive acidic, high-chloride or high-sulphate soils, where even a thick copper-bonded coating risks galvanic failure at the steel-copper interface.

IS 3043 is the Indian earthing code. It sets resistance targets (1 ohm for generating stations, 2 ohms for major substations, 10 ohms for domestic) and basic electrode rules. IEC 62561 is the international standard for earthing and lightning-protection components, and it specifies test methods for corrosion, mechanical strength and the copper-bonding thickness itself. For export projects, ask for compliance with both; they complement each other rather than compete.

IS 3043 requires GI strip used as a buried earth conductor to be hot-dip galvanized to IS 4759 (minimum 610 g/m² or 85 µm coating weight). Bare mild steel strip degrades rapidly in soil and is not acceptable. Our GI strip is drawn from IS 2062 E250 base material, hot-dip galvanized, and batch-certified to IS 4759 with thickness readings at three points per coil. Copper strip and tinned copper strip are used without a coating requirement, the base material is the corrosion protection.