Team News Riveting
Rourkela, September 2
SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has scripted its best-ever April-August performance in major production areas.
The steel plant produced 1879716 Tonnes of hot metal, 1729462 Tonnes of crude steel and 1748349 Tonnes of saleable steel during the first five months of the current fiscal, registering an impressive growth of 5.8 per cent, 4.3 per cent and a massive 15.1 per cent respectively over the corresponding period last year (CPLY). Besides, sinter production (2977587 Tonnes) and average combined power generation from CPP-1 & CPP-3 (72.99 MW) during the period were also the best ever performance since inception of the steel plant.
The success was replicated in dispatch too. By dispatching 1730231 tonnes of saleable steel, RSP clocked its best ever dispatch for the first five months and improved its last year’s record by 11.23 per cent.
Many units of the plant achieved their ABP targets for the month of August. The state-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 rolled 224381tonnes of total HR Coils to record best monthly production in August, 2023. The New Plate Mill also rolled 84129 tonnes of plates to register its best Production for any August month.
It is worth mentioning here that RSP also registered best monthly despatch of finished steel by dispatching 385,321 tons in August, 2023 by rail and road. The month also bears significance as Manganese Ore mining was resumed from Bolani Ore Mines of Odisha Group of Mines of RSP after a gap of 48 years. The first rake carrying Manganese was dispatched to Rourkela on 30th August 2023.
Atanu Bhowmick, Director In-Charge, RSP has congratulated the dedicated team of RSP over the encouraging performance. He urged them to maintain this remarkable momentum and continue to set new milestones in the future.
