Rourkela Steel Plant achieves all-time high output in Jan 2014

Records were set in many areas like hot metal, crude steel, saleable steel, sinter and hot rolled coil

Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has achieved the best ever month production in major areas in January this year besides an all time high production figures in the first ten months of 2013-14.
     
RSP recorded impressive performance in January with Best-Month-since-inception records being set in many areas like hot metal (2.39 lakh tonnes), crude steel (213,000 tonnes), saleable steel (212,000 tonnes), sinter (336,000 tonnes) and hot rolled coil total (166,000 tonnes).
    
On January 31, the hot strip mill rolled out 8,804 tonnes of HR coil, the best of the mill for any single day.
     

Coke Rate, one of key techno-economic parameters too was the best ever for any month since inception at 520 kg per tonne of Hot Metal, RSP sources said today.

     
By producing 2.1 million tonnes of hot metal, 1.92 million tonnes of crude steel and 1.88 million tonnes of saleable steel in April-2013 to January-2014 period, RSP registered its best ever record.
     
It bettered its performance over the corresponding period last year by 6.8 per cent, 4.2 per cent and 6 per cent respectively in the respective segments, they said.
    
Besides, highest ever production of sinter (3.12 million tonnes), plate mill plates (413,000 tonnes) and hot rolled coil for sale (789,000 tonnes) has been achieved by the Steel Plant.
    
RSP's CEO G S Prasad, who visited various units to congratulate the employees personally expressed happiness over the achievements, sources said.

    
"The combination of the state-of-the-art technology of the new units and commitment of the RSP collective will make the plant touch many more peaks of excellence in the days to come," he said.