Record production in Rourkela Steel Plant

New Delhi, Apr 22: The Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) achieved a record high in the production of hot metal touching 1.78 million tonne.

With 1.62 MT total saleable steel, the production of the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered its best-ever annual performance since inception in all its major areas during last fiscal.

According to official sources, the despatches of saleable steel during the period under review registered all time best figure of 1.6 MT.

The company also shows significant growth over 2004-05 in the manufacture of products like plate mill plates (13 per cent), hot rolled plates (20 per cent), galvanised sheet (20 per cent), cold rolled coil (10 per cent) and a spiral wield pipes (76 per cent).

The steel plant registered the highest ever converter lining life of 3,300 heats in steel melting shop-II and 1,100 heats in steel melting shop-I. Lowest ever energy consumption of 8.48 G Cal per tonne of crude steel was also achieved during the year.

The specific water consumption and coke rate also came down by six per cent and four per cent respectively during the year, all these factors resulted in bringing down its cost of production.

UNI