Rail steel is used to make rails for railway lines and for other uses such as tracks for moving equipment like cranes, transfer cars etc. Heavier rails carry heavier and faster trains on the tracks. This steel must be hard wearing and resistant to cracking. This is achieved by careful choice of composition of steel and controlling the way the hot rail is cooled. Before the development of heat treatment processes, the tensile strength and hardness of naturally cooled rails were controlled by the chemical composition of the steel. Both of these properties of steel depend upon the proportion of carbon and manganese.

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Crane rail is a specialty rail designed for carrying heavy loads and is used in a wide variety of applications. They are not the same as railway track rails. Unlike railway track rails, the base width of crane rails is always equal to the height of the rail. Moreover, heavier crane rails have a much thicker web than normal track rails. These Crane Rails mainly serve as tracks for high capacity lifting cranes including gantry cranes and overhead crane runways.

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NITCO supplies Crane Rails of Indian Origin.They comply with various Indian and International Standards to meet different segment requirements.