Team News Riveting
Rourkela, November 3
Continuing its growth trajectory, SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has set new records in production of Hot Metal, Crude Steel and Saleable Steel in the first 7 months of FY 2023-24.
By making 25,99,262 Tons of Hot Metal, 2396779 Tons of Crude Steel and 2429833 Tons of Saleable Steel, the Steel Plant surpassed its previous best records set in last fiscal by 4.6 per cent, 3.2 per cent and 12.7 per cent respectively.
Cumulative APP targets have been achieved/surpassed in Apr-Sept 2023 in Coke Ovens, all the 3 Sinter Plants, Blast Furnace-5, Plate Mill Plates, HR plates from HSM-1 and SW Pipes. Besides, in October 2023 Hot Strip Mill-2 has set new monthly production benchmark of 226475 Tons.
With an all time high production of 4119791 tonnes of sinter during the 1st seven months of the current fiscal, the Sinter Plants complemented the success story. While the combined power generation of 70.89 MegaWatt, from the CPP-1 and CPP-3 was their best ever performance for any 1st seven months of a fiscal.
The State-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 clocked the best monthly production in October, 2023 by rolling 226475 tonnes of HR Coils. The ultra modern Mill also created a new single day record by rolling 9615 tonnes of slabs and producing 9370 tonnes of HR Coils on 30th October, 2023. The Pipe Plant (ERW) made a new single day record by making 575 tonnes of pipes on 15th October.
Atanu Bhowmick, Director In-charge of RSP, congratulated the entire team and emphasized the importance of producing more customized value-added products alongside the increased volume of production to enhance the profitability of the plant.
