Steel and Mines Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday inaugurated the rolling facilities of the new plate mill at SAIL’s Rourkela plant.
The new 4300 mm wide plate mill, the state owned steel major said, is one of the widest plate mills in the country. The mill includes advanced features like computerized control system for plan view rolling process and has a capacity of one million tonne per annum with provision for expanding it to 1.8 million tonne per annum.
This was the minister's first visit to the plant, where he was accompanied by SAIL Chiarman C S Verma, Steel Joint Secretary Sunil Barthwal, among others.
Mr Tomar also laid the foundation stone for construction of a toilet block, as part of SAIL’s target to construct 355 toilets in various schools during the year, under Swachhata Abhiyan.
