RINL News

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant conducted a Full-Scale Mock Drill to test the On-Site Emergency Preparedness following an imaginary fire at Crude and Finished Product storage of Benzol Plant. Emergency services like CISF Fire wing, Medical services, Gas Safety, Maintenance, safety department, CISF (Security) and HR dept etc. actively participated in this mock drill.

RINL-Vizag Steel is proud to be associated with  "ATAL TUNNEL" which is the longest highway  tunnel at a height of more than 10,000 ft. RINL has supplied Major share of TMT requirements, approximately 8,500 MT of Vizag Steel TMT bars for this prestigious tunnel project.   The 9.02 km long tunnel connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley, ensuring connectivity throughout the year. The valley was earlier cut off for about six months every year due to heavy snowfall. The tunnel reduces the road distance by 46 Kms between Manali and Leh and the time by about 4 to 5 hours. Congratulating the RINL collective on this proud moment,   Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL said that, “RINL joins the Nation in thanking Prime Minister Shri Narendra  Modiji on inaugurating this  engineering marvel  today i.e “ATAL TUNNEL “   which is the longest highway tunnel at a height of more than 10000 ft  . This is another milestone in infrastucturing   India by our beloved Prime Minister.”

The Medium Merchant Structural Mill (MMSM), RINL-VSP has for the first time rolled out 125X125mm  Billets by modifying its Roll Stands to meet the increasing  market demand.

RINL, a Navratna PSU, successfully conducted the hot trial of Forging Line in its Forged Wheel Plant at Lalganj, Rae Bareily, Uttar Pradesh.

RINL-VSP is demonstrating its supremacy in conservation of energy year after year and recognized as the best energy efficient steel plant in the country, observes Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL at the valedictory function of Energy Conservation Fortnight celebrations held in connection with the National Energy Conservation Day in Ukkungaram today. Winning several National Awards is the testimony to our efforts, he said.

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant today conducted the Emergency mock-drill at Air Separation Unit 5 of its Utilities Department. During the mock drill, a scenario of the Cryogenic liquid nitrogen leak was assumed and the entire machinery/equipment to arrest the same and to rescue the injured persons was pressed to action.

Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL-VSP  inaugurated   the Project ‘Twin Ladle Heating Furnace’ (TLHF) in Steel Melt Shop-2 today. It was built at a cost of Rs.109 Crores in the existing Steel Melt Shop-2 area of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

Sri Ajit Kumar Saxena has taken charge as the new Director (Operations) of RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant today. Prior to this assignment, Sri Saxena has worked as Chief General Manager, Mills, IISCO, Burnpur, Steel Authority of India Ltd.

Quality Circle teams from RINL-Vizag Steel won laurels at International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC 2019) held at Tokyo, Japan. QC Teams from Coke Ovens department and LMMM department were awarded the prize under ‘Gold’ category and the team from Roll Shop was awarded under the ‘Silver’ category.

RINL has been adjudged as “National Energy Leader" for winning "Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award” for  the consecutive three years (2017,2018,2019) by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Godrej Green Business Centre during 20th National Competition for Excellence in Energy Management held at Hyderabad.

RINL- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant launched an initiative  called Project “Parivartan” recently, aiming  at enhancing the performance and efficiency of the organization to bring about a change for continual and sustainable growth. The project is primarily a Transformation initiative for the employees towards achieving a turnaround.

RINL-Visakhapatnam steel plant achieved yet another significant mile stone in steel making by casting high quality 430 mm Rounds from Caster 4 in  SMS-2 on 27th July.

RINL CMD inaugurates Heating up of Coke Oven Battery-5,   inauguration of Pumping operations from KBR2, Opening of Retail Outlet at Peda Gantyada and commissioning of LPG 2 plant.

Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL  launched the commissioning activities of new Coke Oven Battery--5 Project Complex with the light up of Chimney of Battery  in the august presence of Directors and Senior Officials of the RINL-VSP today.

RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (popularly known as Vizag Steel) responded positively to the call given by Sri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha that the major corporate sector in AP having its subsidiary “Bird Group of Companies” in Odisha to generously contribute to the relief work of Fani cyclone calamity in Odisha. 

RINL-VSP achieved yet another milestone today with the release of water  from the existing Yeleru left main canal into the Kaniti Balancing Reservoir-2, marking the formal launching of the new facility in VSP.

Sri PK Rath, CMD,RINL said that the Company registered a strong performance by recording the highest sales turnover of Rs 20,844 crores during the just concluded 2018-19 financial year, representing an impressive growth of 25% over CPLY of Rs 16,625 crores. He congratulated the RINL-VSP collective for the stupendous performance achieved in all areas of operations.

Sri PK Rath, CMD,RINL-VSP inaugurated  a two day national seminar on “Global Trends in NR-HR Coke Making Technologies”  today in Ukkunagaram. The seminar is being jointly organized by RINL-VSP & IIM, Visakhapatnam Chapter.

Sri PK Rath, CMD, RINL said that Vizag Steel achieved many heights and significant performance during the year 2018 by recording around 20% growth across its operations while addressing the senior officers of RINL-VSP on the occasion of New Year 2019 in Ukkunagaram today.

The Kintada Quartz Mine located in K Kotapadu Mandal, Visakhapatnam District is a captive mine of RINL. Quartz is used in the form of lumps and fines in the iron making process.  Mines Department of VSP started the mining operations at KQM on 31.05.2018 after obtaining all statutory clearances and permissions.