Bokaro Steel Plant - the fourth integrated plant in the Public Sector - started taking shape in 1965 in collaboration with the Soviet Union . It was originally incorporated as a limited company on 29 January 1964, and was later merged with SAIL, first as a subsidiary and then as a unit, through the Public Sector Iron & Steel Companies (Restructuring & Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1978. The construction work started on 6 April 1968. The Plant is hailed as the country’s first Swadeshi steel plant, built with maximum indigenous content in terms of equipment, material and know-how. Its first Blast Furnace started on 2 October 1972 and the first phase of 1.7 MT ingot steel was completed on 26 February 1978 with the commissioning of the third Blast Furnace. All units of 4 MT stage have already been commissioned and the 90s modernisation has further upgraded this to 4.5 MT of liquid steel. The new features added in modernisation of SMS-II include two twin-strand slab casters along with a Steel Refining Unit. The Steel Refining Unit was inaugurated on 19 September 1997 and the Continuous Casting Machine on 25 April 1998.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:03:45 +0000
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