Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) Chairman Mr. C.S. Verma today commissioned a new 70,000 tonnes per annum Tension Levelling Line at SAIL’s Salem Steel Plant (SSP) here. Installed at a cost of Rs. 39.4 crore as part of SSP’s modernisation & expansion plan, the Tension Levelling Line, supplied by Redex, France, is a value-addition process which will enhance flatness in stainless steel coils.
The Tension Levelling Line imparts a combination of tensions and flexions under controlled elongation, which enables flatness of coils/strips by achieving homogenous lengths of internal fibres, practically removing internal strip tensions. Flatness achievable is 3i units.
Mr. Verma is presently on his maiden visit to SSP for an appraisal of the facilities that have come up under the plant’s modernisation & expansion plan. He has been accompanied on this visit by Mr. B.B. Singh, SAIL Director (Personnel). Mr. Verma congratulated the SSP collective on the timely completion of modernisation & expansion facilities.
The major new facilities coming up at SSP include Electric Arc Furnace, Ladle Furnace, AOD Convertor, Slab Caster and a new Sendzimir Mill. These will help to add 0.18 million tonnes of high-value stainless/alloy steel products in the SAIL product-mix basket.