Stainless Steel is an established material in international design. It's contemporary, stylish yet its neutral look is gaining immense popularity among all kinds of users and tops as a material of choice for its excellent blending ability with any other material, viz. glass, ceramics, wood or leather. The material has been providing great opportunities and inspiration to generations of designers. Today its use is being taken to new levels of expression and technical sophistication.

Stainless Innovation Awards is a testament of our continued support to the design fraternity. To keep encouraging creativity in the usage of the material, Jindal STAINLESS announces the fifth edition of "The Stainless Innovation Awards" to reward excellence in use of stainless steel.

The SIA is the India's one of the most prestigious design awards, recognizing excellence in product design and innovation since 2000.

Products are assessed on their individual design merits against a range of criteria including innovation, visual and emotional appeal, functionality, quality and manufacture, human factors and environmental sustainability.

Jindal Stainless Limited. the flagship company of OP Jindal Group was conferred the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National HR Excellence Award 2009 commendation for 'Strong commitment to Human Resource Excellence' at the HR conclave 2010 held on 23^rd July 2010 at Hotel Lalit.

The HR Excellence awards are constituted by CII to recognize the strength of HR processes of an organization. The CII-HR Excellence Model is based on the CII-Exim Bank Excellence Award encompassing all aspects of human resource management and acts as a practical tool for: 1) A Self- Assessment model for measuring the current status and thus identify the gaps to stimulate solutions 2) A framework to position various HR initiatives and identify gaps. 3) A basis to develop common understanding of various terms used in the HR Management.

The eligibility of the award was based on a three step process beginning with the submission of an initial application document on JINDAL STAINLESS people processes which comprised JINDAL STAINLESS Overview, Leadership processes, HR strategy & processes, people knowledge and competencies, employee well being and engagement.

As part of the second step, an eminent panel of assessors from CII conducted a site visit to JINDAL STAINLESS during 16-18^th March 2010 for meeting with the Leadership Team and assessing various aspects of HR excellence. As the next step the scores and feedback report by the assessor panel was evaluated by an eminent panel of jury. As part of the process more than 40 companies participated in the process.