An air of celebration prevailed on the shopfloor of SAIl-Bhilai’s 4 MTPA (million tonne per annum) Modex Facility of Steel Melting Shop 3 (SMS 3) as the heat from the 180 Tonne capacity Convertor 1 was cast into billets on April 9.
M Ravi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) congratulated the entire Bhilai Collective including the teams from Projects department, SMS 3 and members of other associated departments of the Plant, who have worked day and night along with representatives of technology and equipment suppliers and other contractual agencies involved in execution of the Project for this historic occasion and milestone achievement.
Earlier on March 17 this year, work of refractory lining of Convertor 1 was started after successful completion of integrated trials. Another milestone in the SMS III Modex Project was crossed on the same day with the successful load test of turret of Caster 1 (CK 1) of SMS 3. The refractory lining work of Convertor 1 was completed in record time.
The pace of execution of different packages of the SMS 3 Modex Project has been accelerated under the present leadership of the Plant and Projects Department with project managers, engineers and technicians working round the clock along with contractual agencies.