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 Paswan commissions 3 new production facilities at Bhilai

New Delhi November 18, 2006

Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today commissioned three new production facilities set up at a total cost of Rs. 187 crore at Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). Presently under stabilisation, the facilities have been added as part of SAIL's Rs. 37,000-crore expansion plan that is currently under implementation.

Bhilai's four-strand continuous Wire Rod Mill with the capacity to produce 0.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of wire rods from rolled billets was commissioned in 1967. Modernisation of the strand has provided the Mill with facilities to produce wire rods of TMT grade and smaller section of 5.5 to 7.0 mm with consistent productivity besides improving tolerance, ovality and yield of the rods.

The SAIL Board had approved the proposal for installation of hydraulic automatic gauge control (HAGC) and plan view rolling (PVR) in Plate Mill at a cost of around Rs. 52 crore in January 2005. The benefits that will accrue to the Mill due to the new facilities include production of plates with closer thickness tolerances, achievement of high rectangularity of plates, yield improvement, cropping at exact length, etc.

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