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Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Visakhapatnam Steel Plant) Chairman and Managing Director, A.P Choudhary, said on Friday that the industry should adopt clean steel-making technologies and practices to compete in the growing international market.
He was speaking at the Steel Making Operating Committee (SMOC) 2013 meet hosted by RINL on Friday. At the inaugural, he said the demand for clean steel was growing and steel producers should strive to improve the cleanliness of the products.
"It calls for adequate control and improvement in a wide range of operating practices right from the pre-treatment of hot metal to the treatment of steel, particularly secondary metallurgy interventions, shrouding systems, alloy additions, and casting practices," he added.
He said safety as well as environmental standards in steel plants should be improved.
Director (Projects), P.C Mohapatra, said that the steel plant had achieved several milestones in steel-making processes, techno-economic parameters , and customer satisfaction. He explained the introduction of new technologies in the expansion of RINL to produce clean and quality steel.
Delegates from Bhilai, Rourkela, Bokaro, Durgapur, Tata, JSW, Jindal, Bhushan Steel, Alloy Steel Plant, Mecon, Centre for Engg Technology of SAIL participated in the conference.
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