September 07, 2008

Danieli Corus to revive chilled blast furnace of NINL

It is reported that Danieli Corus has been entrusted the job of reviving the chilled blast furnace of Nilanchal Ispat Nigam Limited after it has been shut down over the past 2 months due to chilling of the blast furnace.

As per report, a two member team of the Danieli Corus had recently inspected the chilled blast furnace of the NINL plant and held talks with the plant management authorities and leader of the Kalinga Nagar Mazdoor Union in plant premises. They have prescribed to arrange the required equipment and accessories to be used for the revival of the blast furnace.

Mr DC Swain technical advisor to MD of NINL said that “There is no production in the plant since October 24th 2007. The plant has been shut down due to chilling of blast furnace. We have entrusted the survival work of the blast furnace to the Danieli Corus, world’s best in revival of the chilled blast furnace and it has already inspected the chilled blast furnace of our plant last week. This apart, we are asked by the team to arrange some apparatus to be required by them during revival of the blast furnace.”

Me Swain added that “NINL has suffered a loss due to a shut down of one its units. But the loss is negligible because, NINL has 2 units in Kalinga Nagar industrial complex area. They are hot metal and coke oven. Though the production of hot metal unit has been stopped but the coke oven is on. The market price of coke is high in international market and we are getting good returns.”