Special Bar Mill Products flagged off in VSP    30-Mar-2016     View PDF


RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant achieved yet another milestone today with the flagging off the first consignment of the high quality Rounds rolled out from its recently commissioned Special Bar Mill (SBM).The Special Bar Mill was   installed at a  cost  of  around   Rs 1,000 crores under its 6.3 mtpa expansion programme.

Sri PC Mohapatra, Director (Projects), Sri DN Rao, Director (Operations), Sri P Raychaudhury, Director (Commercial), RINL  flagged off the first consignment of the products from the SBM amidst applause from the Senior officers of the plant, Marketing,  ERP,  SBM  and Information Technology   employees.

Sri P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL while congratulating the collective of SBM for the achievement,  exhorted the employees to work with dedication and commitment to scale to the rated capacity of the highly sophisticated Special Bar Mill.

The SBM is having the capacity to produce 7.5 lakh tons/per annum of Rounds ranging from 16 to 20 to 45 mm in Coil and Straight form, mostly used by the Automobile and Forging Industry. The technology was supplied by M/s Primetals (formerly Siemens, Italy).

The delivery documents were generated through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) process.