Jindal Steel and Power limited (JSPl), dispatched the first shipment of the ‘Head Hardened Rail’ on Wednesday from its Raigarh facility, a company Press release informed.
This is the first time that the head-hardened rail is being exported from the country. In the first consignment, the 1960 tonnes of head headband has been dispatched. It will reach Gangavaram port via train and will be sent to Iran by the freight carrier.
Pankaj Gautam, Executive Director of JSPl Raigarh flagged the consignment’s train off from the unit.
Increasingly, the JSPl Group has started supplying the finished product from the first and only head of the country, Hardnd Rail, in Raigad, taking a big step towards the ‘Make in India’ mission. On Independence Day, the company started production of this special kind of rail.
On Wednesday evening’s function was organised in JSPl on the occasion of supplying the first ship of Head Hardened Rail. Addressing the officials present in the function, Executive Director Pankaj Gautam congratulated the whole team for this achievement. This is a big achievement in the industrial sector.
He said that JSPl, which is currently producing head hardened rail, is the only company in India.
According to the information, there is no hope of establishing such a plant by any other company in the near future. In this case, JSPl will supply only the head-hardened rail for proposed Metro projects in different cities of the country. Also the projects of high speed trains are a big opportunity for the company.
JSPl’s Executive Vice President RK Ajmeria shared his experience with the attendees during the establishment of the Head Hardened Rail Unit.
They said that in April 2012.There was a lot of fluctuations after signing the contract in Germany for this. It was the first plant of the country, so too many technical problems faced, but after successfully passing all the problems, the unit was successfully commissioned on April 20, 2016.
RUBM’s Department Head N Rajkumar told the experience during the production of the head-hardened rail.
He said this achievement was possible only by the united efforts of the entire team.
Rajkumar expressed hope that the supply of 20,000 tonnes of head hardened rail to Iran will be completed by September. During this period, JSPl officials and staff were present in large numbers.
Significantly, JSPl has received orders for supply of 20,000 tonne head hardened rail from Iran Railway. On August 15, 2017, the company started rolling for it.
The Head Hardened rail unit has been set up in the company’s Rail and Universal Beam Mill with the technical support of German company ‘SMS Mir’. The unit is capable of producing 30,000 tonnes per month. Special technique is used in the construction of head hardened rail. Prior to Head Hardened Rail, JSPl also received an order for supply of 1.30 lakh tonnes of normal rail from Iran Railway.
The company is supplying Rail Pant for many projects in addition to the Dedicated Freight Corridor, Delhi Metro. In the last financial year, the company produced two lakh tonnes of rail. Recently, rails has been supplied to Bangladesh from the unit. Rail is also being supplied to the GMR Group from the unit for the new line between Kanpur and Mughalsarai.