SAIL's Rourkela unit logs record output

The stellar performance of the new units is the result of modernisation cum expansion drive of RSP

Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), has logged its best-ever production figures in crude steel and saleable steel in the April-January period of 2016-17.

The steel unit produced 2.37 million tonne of crude steel and 2.23 million tonne of saleable steel, registering growth of 5.3% and 14% respectively. By the end of January this year, the coke oven battery-6 clocked an average of 87 pushings per day while the sinter plant-III produced 2.65 million tonne of sinter. The fifth blast furnace of RSP churned out 2.3 million tonne of hot metal while the