Bhilai Steel’s Steel Melting Shop-2 achieves highest single-day production

31-Dec-2018

Bhilai Steel Plant’s Steel Melting Shop (SMS)-2 has achieved its highest single-day production since inception of the shop, due to higher demand by Indian Railways.

The shop produced 51 rail bloom heats amounting to 6,020 tonnes in a single day on December 24, beating the previous best single-day production of 46 bloom heats achieved in June 2018. The Steel Authority of India plant, one of the leading supplier of rails for Indian Railways said in a statement that its Steel Melting Shops 2 and 3 is committed to tap every opportunity towards fulfilling the requirement of rail blooms.

Bhilai’s SMS-2 also set a production landmark with the Bloom Caster-5 and Combi Casters-3 & 4, all in operation simultaneously for the whole day. In view of the increasing demand of rails by Indian Railways, Slab Caster-3 was converted to Combi Caster to increase Rail bloom production.

With SMS-3 efforts are being made to stabilise and augment production of blooms to the desired level at the earliest. The conversion coupled with other initiatives undertaken will now enable SMS-2 & SMS-3 to cater to the increasing demands of Rail Structural Mill (RSM) and Universal Rail Mill (URM). This will help in fulfilling the demand of Indian Railways and also achieve the production targets by March 2019, the statement added. The record production was achieved under P K Dash, ED (Works) and the leadership of Bhilai Steel Plant CEO, A K Rath.

Source: THE ECONOMIC TIMES