SAIL output up 8% in November

Siddhartha P. Saikia Updated - March 12, 2018 at 02:22 PM.

Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) on Monday said that it has registered a growth of 8 per cent during November 2012 compared to the same month last year.

The public sector company produced 9.72 lakh tonnes of saleable steel during November, it said in a statement.

During April-November 2012, SAIL produced 8.2 million tonnes of saleable steel, a growth of 2.3 per cent over the previous year.

SAIL said that techno-economic parameters during April-November 2012 fared better, with 2 per cent improvement in coke rate and energy consumption and 3 per cent improvement in BF productivity compared to the same period previous year.

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Published on December 3, 2012 09:32