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Salem Steel Plant
 Entrance of the plant | |
| Industry | Steel |
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| Founded | 13 September 1981 |
| Headquarters | Salem, Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Owner | SAIL |
Number of employees | 1,357 |
| Website | Official website |
Salem Steel Plant (SSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), is a steel plant involved in the production of stainless steel.[1] It is located along the Salem — Bangalore National Highway 44 in the foothills of Kanjamalai in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India.[2][3] The plant has an installed capacity of 70,000 tonnes per annum in its cold rolling mill and 3,64,000 tonnes per annum in the hot rolling mill.[1] It also has the country's first stainless steel blanking facility.[4]
History
On 15 May 1972, the Government of India decided to set up a steel plant at Salem for the production of steel and strips of electrical, stainless and other special and mild steel. The construction started on 13 June 1972, after inauguration by then Minister of Steel and Mines Mohan Kumaramangalam.[2] The cost of first phase of the project was ₹181.19 crore (US$21 million).[2] It brought the latest technology in cold rolling to India at the time. The initial production capacity was 32,000 tones per annum (cold rolled stainless steel strips and wide sheets).[3]
Later on 26 March 1991, the second phase at a cost of ₹76.27 crore (US$8.8 million) was realised, increasing production capacity to 70,000 tones per annum.[2][3] On 24 December 1993, a blanking line was commissioned with a capacity of 3600 tones blanks per annum.[2][3] This was the first such facility to be established in India.[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Salem Steel Plant | SAIL". sail.co.in. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "PROFILE OF SALEM STEEL PLANT (SSP)" (PDF). sg.inflibnet.ac.in. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 M, Prakash; M, Manickam (2014). "A Salem Steel plant an Overview". Research Journal of Commerce and Behavioural Science. The International Journal Research Publications. 3: 8. ISSN 2251-1547.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dutta, Indrani (12 July 2010). "Salem Steel's expansion set to be completed by September". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 30 May 2020.