Bhilai Steel Plant saleable steel production up 2.1% in April 2013-Jan 2014

KOLKATA: Bhilai Steel Plant has registered a growth of 2.6%, 1.6% and 2.1% in cumulative Hot Metal, Crude Steel and Saleable Steel production, respectively during the April 2013 to January 2014 period against corresponding period last year (CPLY).

Production of cast steel at steel melting shop (SMS-2) during the ten-month period was the best-ever since inception.

At 2.29 million tonnne (mt) it surpassed the previous best of 2.26 mt in Apr’09-Jan’10(FY10). This included best ever production of 1.52 mt of cast slabs, as against previous best of 1.47 mt in 2010-11. Production of 1.85 lakh tonnes (lt) of High Tensile plates for home sales and export during the ten-month period has been the best ever since inception, surpassing the previous best of 1.36 lt in 2012-13.

Loading of 2.23 lt of 26 metre rails for Indian Railways was also the best, surpassing the previous best of 1.97 lt in 2009-10.

The Plant loaded 1.41 mt of steel for direct despatches during the April to January period of current fiscal year, surpassing its previous best of 1.38 mt in 1999-2000.

In the area of techno-economics, the plant recorded its best ever energy rate of 6.473 GCal per tonne of crude steel for the ten-month April to Jan period of current FY, surpassing the previous best of 6.653 in 2009-10. Labour productivity of 349.7 tonne/man-year has also been the highest for the period, surpassing the previous best of 330.2 in 2012-13.