SAIl on Wednesday said it exported 1.03 lakh tonnes of steel in February, its best ever monthly export figure in the last 10 years. The PSU steel major said the exports also included its first-ever shipment from its New Plate Mill at Rourkela facility to Europe.
“In the month of February 2017, SAIl has achieved the best-ever export monthly volume of steel in last ten years. A total of 1.03 lakh tonnes of steel was exported last month, which includes the first-time shipment of CE marked plates from the New Plate Mill of SAIl’s Rourkela Steel Plant to Europe,” Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl) on Wddnbesday said in a statement.
The new 4.3 metre wide plate mill with initial capacity of 1 million tonnes (MT) can be augmented to 1.8 MT and is equipped with the state-of-the-art technology which can produce a wide range of plates with close dimensional tolerance, perfect flatness and surface finish to meet stringent international standards.