25-03-2017, 04:18 PM
The Rourkela (RSP) steel plant, the first integrated public sector steel plant in India, was created with German collaboration with an installed capacity of 1 million tonnes. Subsequently, capacity was increased to 2 million tonnes of hot metal, 1.9 million tonnes of crude steel and 1.67 million tonnes of marketable steel. After implementing a massive modernization and expansion, the Rourkela Steel Plant has increased its capacity to 4.5 million tons of Hot Metal and 4.2 Million Tons of Crude Steel.
The German metallurgical companies Mannesmann, Krupp, Demag, Siemens and the Austrian company Voestalpine supplied machinery and consultancy to the plant, among others. Rourkela Steel Plant was the first steel plant in Asia to use the LD (Linz-Donawitz) steelmaking process. Rourkela Steel Plant has an associated fertilizer plant that produces nitrogen fertilizers using ammonia raw materials (from its coke oven plant). On February 3, 1959, then-president Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the first RSP blast furnace called 'Parvati' when the company became known as Hindustan Steel Limited (HSL). Subsequently, the RSP became a unit of the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL).
Recently, on April 1, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated a project to modernize and expand Rs 12,000 crores at the Rourkela Steel Plant. Currently, RSP has the capacity to produce 4.5 million tons of hot metal, 4.2 million tons of crude steel and 3.9 million tons of marketable steel.
The capacity of the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) is expected to increase to 10.8 MTPA by 2025. Ashwini Kumar took over as CEO of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in 2016.
The German metallurgical companies Mannesmann, Krupp, Demag, Siemens and the Austrian company Voestalpine supplied machinery and consultancy to the plant, among others. Rourkela Steel Plant was the first steel plant in Asia to use the LD (Linz-Donawitz) steelmaking process. Rourkela Steel Plant has an associated fertilizer plant that produces nitrogen fertilizers using ammonia raw materials (from its coke oven plant). On February 3, 1959, then-president Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the first RSP blast furnace called 'Parvati' when the company became known as Hindustan Steel Limited (HSL). Subsequently, the RSP became a unit of the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL).
Recently, on April 1, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated a project to modernize and expand Rs 12,000 crores at the Rourkela Steel Plant. Currently, RSP has the capacity to produce 4.5 million tons of hot metal, 4.2 million tons of crude steel and 3.9 million tons of marketable steel.
The capacity of the Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) is expected to increase to 10.8 MTPA by 2025. Ashwini Kumar took over as CEO of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in 2016.