December 02, 2008

Concreting work begins for VSP blast furnace

It is reported that the pouring of concrete for laying the foundation of the blast furnace 3 of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant began on Friday with Mr PK Bishnoi CMD launching the work. The work is going to create a record as the concrete pouring will continue non stop for 68 hours and as many as 1,500 tonnes of cement, huge quantities of sand and about 500 tonnes VSP’s TMT bars are used for this huge concreting job.

Besides 6 batching plants for ready mix concrete and 24 transit mixers have been deployed for the work. The operation is completely mechanized now whereas in 1981 when foundation for the blast furnace I and II was laid a huge manpower was deployed.

Larsen & Toubro, the consortium partner of Paulworth of Italy, is executing the work and the latter has taken up the blast furnace project on total turnkey basis. The 3,800 cubic metre volume blast furnace will have all the latest technologies like pulverized coal injection, oxygen enrichment and copper staves for cooling.