The first consignment of 40 mm plain Bar Rounds rolled from the central line of the Bar & Rod Mill – the last MODEX unit of Bhilai Steel Plant to be operationalised was flagged off for despatch on Monday by AK Rath, CEO, Bhilai Steel Plant, informed a company press release on Monday.
Present on the occasion were PK Dash, ED (Works), BP Nayak, ED (F&A), M Biswas, ED (Mines & Rowghat), K K Singh, ED (P & A) and other senior officers and BRM colleticves.
As part of activities prior to Commissioning of the 0.9 MTPA Bar & Rod Mill of SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant, rolling of 40 MM Plain Rounds was successfully accomplished on Sunday ( December 30) as the first lot of billets were rolled into desired plain bar rounds.
With this despatch a major Mile Stone has been achieved since all the units of the Modex have been operationalized and dispatch of the products has been started. It may be recalled that Successful trial rolling of 40 mm Plain Bar Round had earlier been carried out through the Bar Mill’s Central Line on June 11, 2018. In the process of being readied for commissioning. Hot trials of rolling 20 mm TMT bars through Bar Mill’s Lateral Line No 2 was successfully carried out on July 2, 2018 and subsequently through Lateral Line No 1 on July 6, 2018.
It may be noted that, Bar and Rod Mill is a state-of-the–art, turn-key project under the 7MT Modernization & Expansion plan of BSP. The Mill has combination of one wire rod line, two lateral bar lines and one central bar line, having wide range of products ranging from 5.5 to 22mm for wire rods & 6 to 40 mm for TMT bars and 16 to 60 plain rounds, amounting to total annual production of 0.9 MTPA, thereby increasing our product range and market share.
The mill equipment has latest technology in achieving ultra-high finishing speed of up to110 m/s in wire rod production with higher plant efficiency, better material yield, stricter product tolerances and lower production costs.