In house facilities built
in SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant’s Plate Mill for enhancing production volumes of
thicker plates to make the most of market opportunities was inaugurated by
Director in charge, BSP Anirban Dasgupta on Saturday.
Plate
Mill of SAIL- Bhilai is known worldwide for producing quality plates at par
with international standards. The Mill currently produces plates in thickness
sizes from 10 mm to 120 mm.
The
Mill that produces a wide range of both garden variety and special steel plates
has supplied special naval grade plates for aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and
other warships of Indian Navy. The Mill has also rolled out plates in desired
thickness for use in satellite launch vehicles of India’s Space Mission.
With
rapid growth being witnessed in infrastructure sector involving construction of
tall and heavy structures, demand for thicker plates i.e. thickness more than
40 mm has increased. Moreover, thicker grade of plates fetches better net sales
realisation (NSR) per tonne. In order to make the most of opportunities, both
in domestic and export market, Team Plate Mill has augmented its facility and
developed an alternative route for enhancing production volumes of thicker
plates.
At
present, Plate Mill is producing upto 10,000 T of heavy plates per month. For
enhancing the production, Plate Mill has under the guidance of Anirban
Dasgupta, Director I/c BSP and Anjani Kumar, ED (Works) improved its facilities
for production of heavy plates.
Plate
Mill Team led by R K Bisare, CGM (Plate Mill), extended the charging side roll
tables of Cooling Bed- 5 by 15 meters to handle Heavy Plates, exclusively.
Further, fabrication of new boom was done for lifting of plates with magnet
from extended roll table and transporting to trailers for further finishing at Shipping
Bay. In the Shipping bay, a bed for gas cutting of plates, inspection bed with
full UT facilities has been added for finishing of enhanced production volumes
and despatch of heavy plates. This feat has been achieved under Shri Bisare’s
leadership and with support of associated shops and departments in record time
of 45 days.