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Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered hot metal production of 2.1 million tonnes, crude steel 97 mt and saleable steel 1.84 mt during April-February of the current fiscal.
The production figures have registered a capacity utilisation of 115 per cent, 113 per cent and 120 per cent respectively, as the steel plant achieved a growth of about two per cent in each of these areas compared to the corresponding period of the last year.
Hot metal and crude steel production was the best ever since the inception of the steel plant, RSP sources said here today.
The company has focused on high volume of production and improvement in techno-economic factors to control the cost of production for sustaining its profitability. The steel plant surpassed its annual rated capacity in hot metal, crude steel and saleable steel within the first eleven months.
Simultaneously techno-economic factors like coke rate per tonne of hot metal, coal to hot metal ratio, average blast furnace productivity, specific energy per tonne of crude and make-up water per tonne of crude steel registered an all-time best performance for any April to February period since inception, the sources said.
During February 2011, coke oven, sinter plant 2, hot rolled plates and ERW Pipes had the distinction of surpassing the monthly production levels envisaged in the Annual Performance Plan.
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