Bhilai Steel Plant’s Steel Melting Shop-II has recorded its best-ever production of crude steel with two converters in operation.
Converter-B in the Plant’s SMS II was taken for relining from 5th to 15th July ‘2013 and during this period of 10 days, the shop worked with remaining two converters. Production of crude steel by SMS II in this period was a record 61789 Tonnes from 512 heats with an average of 56.88 heats,’’ a press statement of the plant informed.
The Bhilai Steel Plant which is the flagship unit of the public sector Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl) is based in Durg district, about 30 km west from Raipur. On 13th July 2013, the shop also achieved highest number of heats in a day with two Converters, making 62 heats with total 7520 Tonnes. Another record made by the shop on the same day was that of highest number of heats in a shift with two Converters. As many as 22 heats were made in the ‘C’ shift.
The record production could be achieved with dedicated efforts of the Converter and CCS collective under the guidance of Y.K. Degan, ED (Works), Ashwini Kumar, GM (SMS-II & CCS).