New facilities worth Rs 5000 crore commissioned at IISCo. Steel Plant

KOLKATA: New units worth Rs 500 crore have commenced production at The Steel Authority of India's IISCo. Steel Plant (ISP) at Burnpur. The new units are part of an Rs 16,000 crore modernization programme that is in the final stages of completion. SAIL chairman CS Verma was at the plant last week to review the modernization & expansion work. He was accompanied by S S Mohanty, Director (Technical) and T S Suresh, Director (Projects & Business Planning).

Post modernization, the plant will produce 2.9 million tonnes of hot metal. The major facilities will include a new seven metre tall coke oven battery (COB); two sinter machines, a new blast furnace of 4060 cubic metre volume with top pressure recovery turbine, three 150-tonne basic oxygen furnace converters. Other new facilities include two six-strand billet casters and one four-strand beam blank/ bloom caster; universal section mill, wire rod & bar mill with necessary auxiliary and service facilities.

The new coke oven battery has commenced trial operation and has supplied more than 2 lakh tonne of coke so far. The new COB with 74 ovens has an annual production capacity of 0.882 million tonne. Cutting-edge technologies in the coke-making have been adopted in this new battery, which complies with the global emission norms. The other key unit to start hot trials is sinter plant having production capacity of 3.8 million tonne per annum (mtpa). The sinter from this unit is also being dispatched to sister units. Besides Coke Oven and Sinter plant, the Wire Rod Mill has commenced trial production. Having an annual production capacity of 0.5 mtpa, the Mill will produce cold headed steel for fasteners, critical wire rope applications and special quality electrodes. The product portfolio offers variable size ranging from 5.5 to 22.0 mm diameter in low, medium and high carbon steel, including high quality TMT grades.