The characteristics of re-rolling mills in SME sector (Fig 1) include (i) obsolete equipment and facilities, (ii) shortage of resources for improving performance, (iii) integration of ownership and management, (iv) non dependence on professional personnel for solutions, (v) small capacity mills, (vi) limited product range, (vii) low yields, (viii) high energy consumption, (ix) mostly manual operation, (x) avoidance of product certification, (xi) serving mostly local market, (xii) over dependence on a few suppliers, customers or products, (xiii) lack of standard operating practices, and (xiv) practically no use of information technology etc.