Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited (NINL) located in Kalinga Nagar Odisha is climbing new heights in production after completing the category-1 extended capital repair of its 1.1 million ton Blast Furnace – Brahmani.
Immediately after finishing the major repair in its Blast Furnace, the company’s production crossed the mark of producing 3000-ton of hot metal on consecutive days in May 2018.
‘Brahmani’-the company’s Blast Furnace produced 3001 ton on 13 May and 3023 ton of on 14 May , both were back to back highest ever single-day hot metal production in company’s history.
Vice-Chairman and MD of NINL S.S. Mohanty said “surpassing the 3000-ton mark in hot metal production is the company’s aims to sustain and efforts are made to benchmark all the parameters to the world-class standard”.
He added that on reaching 100% capacity utilization, the blast furnace will produce around 3500 ton hot metal per day, whereas earlier, the production could only reaching around 50-55% of its capacity and the company has lined up several activities for this Financial Years to strengthen its bottom-line which includes steel billet production, the operation of its captive mines and many cost optimization schemes.
The company has immediate plans to restart the Steel Melting Shop (SMS) to produce steel billets along with the production of Pig Iron. With the improved hot metal production, NINL plans to resume steel billet production after restarting the steel melting shop in full capacity.
With the restarting of SMS, NINL will get further boost to its turnaround plan when the captive mines of the company at Koira get operational this year.
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