Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), has logged its best ever production figures in crude steel and saleable steel in the April-January period of 2016-17.
The steel unit produced 2.37 MnT of crude steel and 2.23 MnT of saleable steel, registering growth of 5.3 per cent and 14 per cent respectively. By the end of January this year, the coke oven battery-6 clocked an average of 87 pushings per day while the sinter plant-III produced 2.65 MnT of sinter. The fifth blast furnace of RSP churned out 2.3 MnT of hot metal whilst the new plate mill rolled out 428,083 MT of plates.
The stellar performance of the new units is on the back of the modernisation cum expansion drive taken up by RSP. Though RSP like other steel plants in the country is passing through a rough financial phase, RSP’s chief executive officer Ashwini Kumar has stressed on strengthening every link to optimize the performance.
Special emphasis is on improving the performance of each unit involved in the production chain. Kumar’s thrust has been on eliminating surprises and breakdowns by focusing on strict adherence to the maintenance protocol. A case in point is the new initiative ‘Project Vishwakarma’ launched under guidance in which every week the connected departments interact and prepare a road map to ensure uninterrupted production.
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