Sail's ISP unit at Burnpur nearing modernisation

Plant to produce 2.9 million tonne of hot metal

Modernisation and expansion works worth Rs 16,000 crore at Steel Authority of India Ltd’s IISCO Steel Plant in Burnpur, in the state of West Bengal is nearing completion.

“The plant will produce 2.9 million tonne of hot metal after completion,” Sail said in a release today.

At the plant, some of the major facilities installed include a new seven metre tall coke oven battery, two sinter machines, blast furnace of 4,060 cubic meter volume, three 150 tonne basic oxygen furnace converters, two 6-strand billet casters and one 4-strand beam blank/ bloom caster, universal section mill, wire rod and bar mill with necessary auxiliary and service facilities.

The new seven meter tall coke oven battery has commenced trial operation and is providing coke support to sister steel plants, said Sail.

Besides coke oven and sinter plant, the wire rod mill at the unit has also commenced trial production, said the company.
Post modernisation, the product portfolio will offer variable size ranging from 5.5 to 22.0 mm diameter in low, medium and high carbon steel including high quality TMT grades, said Sail.