Team News Riveting
Raipur, April 27
Blast Furnace 8 of SAIL- Bhilai Steel Plant, a Modex unit, has once again created history by achieving the 7 MT cumulative hot metal production in record 1179 days, thereby becoming the fastest among SAIL’s other large furnaces of similar capacity in sister units.
The 7 MT milestone was achieved by BF 8 in the B shift on April 26, 2021. BF 8, christened Mahamaya, achieved this milestone 5 months and 13 days before similar furnace in Rourkela Steel Plant and 9 months and 15 days before similar capacity furnace in IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur.
It is worth mentioning that for BF 8, the journey from 6 to 7 MT has been accomplished in minimum time of 141 days, with an average daily rate of 7093 Tonnes.
Director In-charge, SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant, Anirban Dasgupta congratulated Team BF and all associated departments including upstream and downstream shops for BF 8 achieving 7 MT production of hot metal in record time. Shri Rajeev Sehgal, ED (Works) also congratuled members of Team BF for the milestone achievement.
It may be recalled that on December 6, 2020, members of BF 8 and supporting depts had gathered to celebrate crossing the 6 million tonnes mark in cumulative production milestone. By crossing the 6 MT milestone in 1038 days, Bhilai’s BF 8 had become the fastest among furnaces of similar capacity in SAIL to do so.
It is worth mentioning that earlier, BF 8 had earlier become the fastest in SAIL to have crossed the 1 MT, 2 MT, 3 MT and 4 MT cumulative production milestones. After the blowing in of BF 8 on 2nd Feb 2018, the first hot metal flowed out from the from the 2.8 MTPA Blast Furnace 8 on 4th Feb 2018. The graph of daily production from modern furnace with advanced automation & control systems had risen steadily since then. The cumulative production from BF 8 crossed the 1 MT mark on 18th Oct 18. The 2 MT milestone was crossed on 1st April 19. The 3 MT milestone was crossed on 9th Sept 2019, 4 MT milestone on 11th Feb 2020 and 5 MT milestone on 9th July, 2020.
Congratulatory messages have poured in for members of BF 8 Team and all supporting shops and departments, for becoming the fastest among the other two blast furnaces in SAIL of similar capacity to cross the 7 MT milestone. Dr SK Issar, ED (M & HS), Rakesh, ED (Materials Mgt), AK Bhatta, ED (Projects),
S K Dubey, ED (P&A), S Rangani, CGM I/c Finance, SN Abidi, GM I/c Services, S R Suryavanshi, CGM I/c (Iron), Arvind Kumar, CGM I/c M & U, Tapas Dasgupta, CGM (Blast Furnaces) have all congratulated members of BF 8 team and supporting departments for the milestone achievement.
In his message to Team BF 8, Tapas Dasgupta, CGM (Blast Furnaces) said the BF 8 Team’s performance is indeed praiseworthy. Our journey towards excellence continues, he stated thanking all supporting shops and departments who have been a part of BF 8’s journey.
