Bhilai Steel Plant’s modernisation programme has picked up pace with the inauguration of the rolling process of SAIl-Bhilai’s Bar and Rod Mill, by Saraswati Prasad, IAS, Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Steel, Govt of India.
Director (Commercial) SAIl, Soma Mondal, CEO BSP, M Ravi, Executive Directors, General Managers and senior officers of the Plant and Projects Mills Zone, supporting agencies of the Plant and representatives of equipment suppliers and contractors engaged for various packages of the BRM Modex Project also witnessed the inauguration of the key rolling process.
The 0.9 MTPA modern Bar & Rod Mill in Bhilai would enable SAIl-Bhilai to roll out new products including Bright bar, Cold heading, Spring Steel, Free Cutting Steel in wire rod sections and also TMT Bars in straight length.
The entire range of product grades from the new Mill would enable SAIl to meet the emerging needs of different grades of structural steel for the nation’s ambitious infrastructure development programme.
M Ravi, CEO and R S Chaturvedi, ED (Projects) congratulated members of the entire BRM Team and all agencies associated with the Projects for crossing this major milestone.
The Projects Mills Zone team for BRM that worked hard for the execution and run up to the lighting of furnace, first billet discharge from furnace and inauguration of rolling process of the new Mill was led by PR Saha, DGM I/c Projects-Mills, Satish Kumar, DGM I/c BRM and Mukesh Gupta, DGM-Maint-BRM.
The team comprised of Ranvir Singh, DGM (Proj-Safety), Prakash Aglawe, AGM (Proj), Tarun Kumar, Sr Manager –Proj., Rl Jain, Sr Mgr-Proj, Sudhir Vaid, Asst. Mgr – Proj., CP Tiwari, Asst Mgr – Proj., KR Markandey, Dy Mgr –Proj-Safety, and Junior Managers, Bar & Rod Mill Messrs. Rajul Pandey, Ashutosh Kumar, Ashwini Kumar, Rahul Bansal, Manoj Kumar, Ramesh Babu, Satya Neelaboria, Uttam Sarella, Goutham, Kunal Singla, Pradeep Kumar, Shruti Menon and other junior managers of BRM.