Team News Riveting
Raipur, February 2
SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant’s Modex Unit, Universal Rail Mill that rolls out the world’s longest 130 meter rails in single piece and supplies 260 meter lon g welded rail panels to Indian Railways has recorded best ever monthly production of prime rails in the desired R 260 grade in 60E1 profile for the second consecutive month in January 2024.
The Mill that recorded best ever monthly production of 82,041 Tonnes of prime rails in December 2023 has surpassed this record by producing 82,439 T of prime rails in January 2024. The mill recorded best ever production of 86,714 T of finished rails in January 2024, surpassing the previous best of 85,804 T of finished rails in the previous month of December 2023.
As many as 5184 numbers of 130 metre rails were welded into 260 metre long welded rail panels in January 2024, surpassing the previous best monthly record of 5179 welded panels in Dec 23. It is worth mentioning that there has been a marked improvement in cobble reduction in Mill.
The best-ever monthly performance since inception by URM both in Dec 23 and in Jan’2024 was made possible with collective efforts of Team URM in association with several other departments including Research & Control Lab, Steel Melting Shop 3 and 2, RITES, Traffic Dept, Production Planning & Control Dept.
