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SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant Achieves Second Year of Record Performances With Danieli Plate Mill

The companies said that while the 4.3-m-wide plate mill was designed to roll 920,000 metric tons of plate products annually, it has surpassed this by achieving 993,000 metric tons. This is the second year in a row it has exceeded the estimated production capacity. 

Other milestones included a single-day rolling record over 5,100 metric tons of plates, over 380 slabs per day slab rolling and a record shift tonnage over 1,800 metric tons. 

The plate mill produces products including API pipeline steels, shipbuilding plates and special grades for engineering including defense applications, the company said.