With the new Blast Furnace V of Rourkela Steel Plant coming to stream, the steel plant is all set to reach new heights in production performance. On October 20 the steel plant produced 9020 tonnes of hot metal out of which 4267 tonnes was made by the new blast furnace ‘Durga’.
The sinter units matched the performance by producing 15,988 tonnes of sinter which is again the best ever performance for any single day. The new sinter unit number three played a vital role in this achievement by producing 6187 tonnes of sinter. Another new unit that is doing exceedingly well is the coke ovens battery number six. The unit is consistently improving its performance and clocking an average daily pushing of more than its target that is 65. Sometimes the daily pushing surpasses even 80.
GS Prasad, CEO, Rourkela Steel Plant has expressed his happiness over the superb achievement and congratulated the employees for their commitment to quickly stabilise the new units that have come up under the modernisation and expansion.