RSP crude steel output up 23%

Crude steel output at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), went up by more than 23 per cent during April-September period of 2014-15 to 1.35 million tonne (mt), its best ever performance since the inception of the plant.

During the same period, hot metal production surged 27.4 per cent to 1.5 mt while salable steel output was 1.28 mt, a rise of 18.3 per cent.

"Besides, the highest ever production performance was also recorded in many other important areas like sinter production (227,6531 tonne) and hot rolled coil output (832,330 tonne)," said RSP in a release.

Among flat steel, the steel plant also made 231,669 tonne of steel plates, registering growth of 2.8 per cent, 128,412 tonne of hot rolled plates (8.8 per cent), 73,798 tonne of cold rolled sheets (39.7 per cent), 18,437 tonne of pipes (12.6 per cent) and 36,407 tonne of fully processed cold rolled steel, a rise of 1.6 per cent over the corresponding period of last fiscal. The plant also performed remarkably in energy consumption parameters.

With specific energy consumption of 6.583 giga calorie per tonne of crude steel and coke rate of 518 kg per tonne of hot metal, the steel unit clocked its best ever performance for any April-September in a fiscal, said a release by RSP.