A new Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) has been installed in the newly constructed State-of-the-art quality control laboratory of the Wire Rod Mill of IISCO Steel Plant. The spectrometer was inaugurated on Saturday by CEO N Kothari. Belonging to the latest art model, application of OES in steel industry is very critical for characterisation of its wide range of products like wire rods, angles, channels, rails etc in very short time with high degree of accuracy.
The WRM has recently been granted IS: 7887:1992 licence by the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) for production & dispatch of 6M, 7M and 8M grades of wire rods of sizes 5.5 mm to 22mm. The installation of OES was in line with the stipulated requirements of Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) whereby chemistry of all of steel products needs to satisfy the specifications before dispatch. OES will be extensively used for this purpose and will enable quick dispatch of rolling mill products from the newly commissioned mills. Congratulating the employees of Mills and Research and Control lab (RCl), Kothari said that quality is our topmost priority and we want to give our customers world class products at competitive prices.
Commissioned in August this year, the Wire Rod Mill with an annual production capacity of 0.5 MTPA, is one of the key packages of the expansion project of IISCO Steel Plant. With a top notch speed of 115 meters per second, this is one of the fastest Mills in the world capable of producing cold headed quality steel for fasteners, critical wire rope applications and special quality electrodes. The product portfolio offers variable size ranging from 5.5 to 22.0 mm diameter in low, medium and high Carbon steel.