Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (FN Representative) Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the Maharatna company SAIL has registered its ‘best-ever’ H1 production performance in the three key areas such as Hot Metal, Crude Steel and Saleable Steel. The steel plant produced 22,12,182 Tonnes of hot metal, 20,33,619,Tonnes of crude steel and 20,78,176 Tonnes of saleable steel during the first six months of the current fiscal, registering an impressive growth of 3.9 percent, 2.1 percent and a massive 13.1percent respectively over the corresponding period last year (CPLY).
Besides, sinter production (35,16,146 Tonnes) and average combined power generation from CPP-1 & CPP-3 (71.06 MW) during the period were also the best ever performance since inception of the steel plant. The Plant also dispatched 20,86,078 tonnes of saleable steel clocking its best ever dispatch for the first six months and improved its last year’s record by 13.01 percent. The state-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 rolled 2,12,021 tonnes of total HR Coils to record best monthly production in September, 2023.
The New Plate Mill also rolled 83,217 tonnes of plates to register its best Production for any September month. The RSP also registered the best monthly despatch of finished steel by dispatching 357537 tons in September, 2023 by rail and road. The Pipe Plant (SW) produced 403 tonnes of SW Pipes on September 15 last to clock its best production for any September month. RSP Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick while congratulating the Steel Plant collective for the stupendous achievement said “we need to focus on further cutting down our cost of production so as to stay competitive in the market. ”