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| Traded as | NSE: SAIL |
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| Industry | Steel |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | Bokaro, Jharkhand, India |
| Products | Hot Rolled & Cold Rolled |
Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) is located in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India built with Soviet help.
History
It was incorporated as a limited company in 1964.[1] It was later merged with the state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).[2] It houses 5 blast furnaces presently among which the first one was begun on 2nd October 1972.[3]
Production
Currently it houses five blast furnaces with a total capacity to produce 5.8 MT of liquid steel.[4] The plant is undergoing a mass modernisation drive after which its output capacity is expected to cross 10 MT.
The new features added in modernization of SMS-II include two twin-strand slab casters along with a Steel Refining Unit during 1990s. The Steel Refining Unit was inaugurated on 19th September, 1997 and the Continuous Casting Machine on 25th April, 1998. The modernisation of the Hot Strip Mill saw addition of new features like high pressure de-scalers, work roll bending, hydraulic automatic gauge control, quick work roll change, laminar cooling etc. New walking beam reheating furnaces are replacing the less efficient pusher type furnaces. A new hydraulic coiler has been added and two of the existing ones revamped. Initially, about 64 moujas (a mouja may have several village units) had been acquired for the plant. Of the total land acquired, only 7,765 ha was used to set up the steel plant. The rest has been given by SAIL to the private parties without government’s approval.
The plant's yearly profit stood at ₹11.2 billion (US$160 million) for the financial year 2003–04 and has increased every year since then reaching to 84.26 billion INR in the financial year 2007–08.
Products
Bokaro Steel Plant is designed to produce a wide range of products:
- Hot rolled coils
- Hot rolled plates
- Hot rolled sheets
- Cold rolled coils (CRM)
- Cold rolled sheets
- Tin mill black plates
- Galvanised plain and corrugated sheets
- Oxygen gas
- Hydrogen gas
- Coke oven byproducts
References
- ↑ Nirmal Sengupta (1979). Destitutes and Development: A Study of the Bauri Community in the Bokaro Region. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 25–. GGKEY:73SPC2220UQ.
- ↑ Steel Authority Of India Limited
- ↑ https://www.ftd.travel/bokaro-steel-plant-attraction-bokaro-steel-city
- ↑ "BOKARO STEEL PLANT - PRODUCT BASKET".
Further reading
- Sutinder Bhatia (1 January 1991). Bokaro steel plant: some economic aspects. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-540-7.
- Padma Desai (1972). The Bokaro steel plant: a study of Soviet economic assistance. North-Holland Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-444-10388-8.
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