The Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) of Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) will ramp up its production capacity for special steel plates from 3,000 mt to 15,000 mt, a company official said on Wednesday, August 31.
The official said that this capacity ramp-up will be part of the next round of RSP’s $82 million expansion and modernization program which has been approved by the Indian government.
RSP is already a major supplier of special steel plates to India’s defense manufacturing sector for aircraft carriers and long range missiles and large part of the increased production will also go to high-tech defense equipment supplies, the official said.
The next round of the expansion of RSP, located in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, will include construction of a 12 million mt per year pelletization plant and a hot strip mill with an annual output capacity of 3 million mt per year.