Anirban Dasgupta takes over as new CEO of SAIL-IISCO Steel Plant
2 Sept 2017 9:58 PM IST
New Delhi: Anirban Dasgupta has taken over as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SAIL-IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur with effect from September 1.
The Indian Iron & Steel Company (IISCO), a SAIL subsidiary, was amalgamated with SAIL on February 16, 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant (ISP). This full-fledged integrated steel plant is one of India's oldest.
Established as an industrial enterprise in 1918, IISCO produced iron from an open-top blast furnace at Hirapur (later to be called Burnpur) in West Bengal for the first time in 1922. The plant was progressively upgraded to a capacity for production of 4.26 lakh tonnes of saleable steel and 2.54 lakh tonnes of pig iron annually. The plant manufactures a range of products, over some of which it holds exclusive market dominance. Iron & steel produced by it has been acknowledged as being of the finest quality.
After undergoing a modernisation-cum-expansion programme, the crude steel capacity of the plant has been raised to 2.5 million tonnes per year.
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