The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited Visakhapatnam Steel Plant announced that INR 5000 crores worth new units to come up in its current location at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
The board of RINL has given its nod to go ahead for setting up of
1. Seamless tube mill at an estimated cost of INR 2300 crores of 400,000 tonne per annum capacity. The new mill will be completed in 30 months from the date of order placement.
RINL will adopt latest tube making technology with state of the art automation. RINL is going to produce Seamless Tubes of 5.5” to 18” with a provision to produce even less than 5.5” tubes in the existing layout of the plant. The unique feature of the proposed SLTM is that it has the option to produce above 18” tubes by creating additional facilities in future. Currently, only up to 14” tubes are being produced in the country.
2. A new coke oven battery 5 at an estimated cost of INR. 2620 crores
In its journey to become 20 million tonne per annum by 2020 at a single location, RINL will build a new Coke Oven Battery 5 (COB 5) along with By Product Plant and its associated facilities to meet its metallurgical coke needs. M N Dastur & Co, the Consultant has already made the Detailed Project report.
The New Coke Oven Battery would be 7 Meter tall and fully environmental friendly 67 Ovens each and Top Charging Battery. For the first time, VSP is installing “Claus” plant for recovery of ‘elemental sulphur’, which will help in maintaining the sulphur content in the effluents much below the stipulated norms. The COB 5 is coming up as a stand alone battery, comprising of By product Plant, Coke Dry Quenching, Coal & Coke Handling Plant, Phenolic effluent treatment plant etc.
Mr AP Choudhary CMD firmly believes that along with growth and future expansion facilities, utmost care should be given to pollution control and effective environment management system.
In this context, CMD informed that out of INR 2620 crores envisaged for new COB 5, around INR 500 crores would be spent on environment management system.
