Durgapur: Durgapur Steel Plant, a unit of SAIL – a Maharatna PSU continued its journey on the path of high production and recorded the best July month production performance in almost all important items viz. hot metal, crude steel, saleable steel, special steel, saleable steel dispatch, blend mix and sinter in the recently concluded month.
Congratulating the employees for improved production performance, AV Kamlakar, CEO, ISP with additional charge of CEO, DSP & ASP said, "We have adopted multi-prolonged strategies to improve the production performance in every front. Our strategies have yielded results with surge in production in the plant. DSP has maintained the momentum and has recorded the best July month performance in almost all important items. It has been made possible due to proactive strategy and collaboration among all departments and employees".
The production targets as envisaged in the Annual Business Plan have been exceeded in all vital items. Production of hot metal, crude steel and saleable steel were at 108 per cent, 107 per cent and 108 per cent of APP targets respectively in the month of July, 2019.
APP target were fulfilled in the areas of oven pushing (102 per cent), blend mix (110 per cent), sinter (129 per cent), hot metal (108 per cent), crude steel (107 per cent), CCP (106 per cent), saleable steel (108 per cent) and merchant mill (101 per cent).
Best July performance was achieved in RMHP tippling, production of sinter, hot metal, crude steel, CCP, merchant mill, saleable steel, special steel and value added products and saleable steel dispatch. Sinter plant registered best day performance by producing 12097T on July 24, 2019. Also production of 8000T at SMS has been the best monthly production surpassing the previous best production figure of 5000T in June 2019.