THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU ROURKELA, MAY 5, 2025 In a remarkable display of operational excellence, the Steel Melting Shop-I (SMS-I) of  Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has etched its name into the record books by executing the longest-ever sequence of heats in its Continuous Casting Machine-I. On April 30, 2025, SMS-I achieved a new milestone by completing 31 successive heats, surpassing its previous ...

THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 5, 2025 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) concluded the financial year 2024-25 with remarkable achievements across key production areas and techno-economic parameters. Despite operating with just two active Blast Furnaces and making strategic decisions to shut down economically unviable units such as Hot Strip Mill-1 and Cold Rolling Mill, the plant surpassed the 4 Million Ton (MT) ...

THEBUSINESSBYTES BUREAU NEW DELHI, MARCH 16, 2025 State-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has announced plans to more than double the production capacity of its Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) to 9.4 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) by 2030, with an investment of ₹30,000 crore. This ambitious expansion aims to strengthen SAIL’s supply to key industries such as defence, oil ...

Rourkela, November 21, 2024 (TBB Bureau): In a significant move to strengthen its raw material base and support the growth of India’s steel industry, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has entered into a strategic long-term agreement with Adani Enterprises Limited to develop and operate the Taldih Iron Mine. This ambitious project, based on the Mines Developer and Operator (MDO) model, aims ...

ROURKELA, JUNE 25, 2024 (TBB BUREAU):Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has underscored its commitment to environmental sustainability through the adoption of several advanced Environment Management technologies and practices. A significant milestone in this endeavour is the rapid progress of the Treatment System-1 project, a cornerstone of its Zero Liquid Discharge initiative, showcasing the plant’s dedication to a greener ecosystem. This pioneering ...

ROURKELA, JUNE 24, 2024 (TBB BUREAU): The Odisha Group of Mines (OGoM), operating under Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), has achieved unprecedented milestones in iron ore production and dispatch for the financial year 2023-24. The group recorded its highest ever annual iron ore production, reaching 14.304 million tonnes (MT), a 2.76 per cent increase from the previous year’s 13.92 MT. Concurrently, ...

ROURKELA, APRIL 04, 2024 (TBB BUREAU): SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) concluded the fiscal year 2023-24 on a triumphant note, marking its best-ever production figures across key production areas since its inception. In an extraordinary display of efficiency and capability, RSP recorded remarkable production numbers for the fiscal year, with a staggering 44,94,258 tons of Hot Metal, 41,61,241 tons of ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, FEB 8, 2024 SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has taken a significant step towards addressing malnutrition among school children by signing a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for Nutrition, Anand, Gujarat, and the District Administration of Sundargarh. The MoU aims to provide nutritious pasteurized fortified flavored packaged milk to primary ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 9, 2023 The state-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 (HSM-2) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has received ISO 14001 certification for Environment Management Systems. The certification reaffirms the commitment of the steel plant to protect, preserve and sustainably manage the environment. RSP ED (Works) SR Suryawanshi handed over the certificate to CGM (HSM-2) RK Muduli, in a programme ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUG 29, 2023 In a significant step towards technological advancement and innovation, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD). The collaboration aims to unlock the vast potential of 5G technology for industrial applications, heralding a new era of efficiency and productivity. The MoU was ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUG 3, 2023 Riding on the best-ever monthly steel production in July this year, SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) recorded its best ever April-July production performance in key areas in the current financial year (FY24). During April-July 2023 RSP  produced 1503879 tonnes of hot metal, 1373483 tonnes of crude steel and 1381750 tonnes of saleable steel, thereby ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 13, 2023 The Traffic And Raw Material Department collective of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) with its meticulous planning and relentless pursuit of excellence is keeping pace with the improved performance trend of the Plant and has made remarkable strides in various areas contributing to enhanced operational efficiency. With the proper streamlining of logistics and timely delivery ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUN 12, 2023 The Steel Melting Shop-I (SMS-I) of SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) achieved a remarkable milestone by producing 1,932 tonnes of crude steel in a single day on Sunday. The achievement was made possible through a record-breaking 28 blows, surpassing the previous best of 27 blows and 1,878 tonnes of production recorded on November 30, ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 06, 2023 SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) demonstrated impressive performance in key production areas in the first two months of the Financial Year 2023-24 (FY24). RSP produced 7,67,605 tons of Hot Metal, 6,92,333 tons of Crude Steel and 6,44,673 tons of Saleable Steel in April-May in FY24 to register a corresponding Year-on-Year (Y-O-Y) growth of 2.6 ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 04, 2023 As the world comes together to celebrate World Environment Day on 5th June, SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) is reaffirming its commitment to produce green steel in a sustainable and environment-friendly way by consistently adopting state of the art technologies. RSP has successfully implemented a range of innovative measures to minimize its ecological footprint, ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APR 28, 2023 The Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been accorded FIH Category-2 Hockey field certificate. The certificate is valid till February 8, 2026. In the certificate, FIH has mentioned that Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium has been tested and shown to comply with the requirements of an FIH Category-2 hockey field. With ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APR 4, 2023 Effective disposal of Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) slag with waste by the Material Recovery Department (MRD) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has helped in generating huge revenue and created space for future dumping of slag, thus ensuring uninterrupted production. The MRD has taken an initiative to dispose of accumulated LD/BF slag in association with ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APR 1, 2023 “Have the vision of being the Best Steel Plant,” called upon Atanu Bhowmick, Director In-Charge (DIC), to the employees of SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), while addressing a huge gathering of senior officers and employees of the Plant on the occasion of the Annual Performance Review and Award function on 1st April 2023.  Notably ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JAN 24, 2023             SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) Foundation Day was celebrated with pomp and gaiety by Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on Tuesday. RSP Director In-charge Atanu Bhowmick was the Chief Guest of SAIL Day function organised at Ispat stadium. The DIC unfurled the SAIL flag amidst the sail anthem and released the balloons to ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 16, 2022                The Steel Melting Shop-I (SMS-I) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has set a new record in lining life of steel ladle. The department recorded the feat on December 8 by achieving the highest ever lining life of 104 heats. The previous best lining life of 102 heats was clocked in August, 2021. The ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 7, 2022 As a part of its CSR initiatives, SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has sponsored 60 poor and underprivileged local youth drawn from periphery villages for undergoing skill development training at Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Bhubaneswar under the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India. ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, OCT 28, 2022 The state-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 (HSM-2) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) surpassed the major milestone of 1 million tonne coil production on Thursday within six and half months of its commissioning. Congratulating the collective, RSP Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick who joined the celebrations held at the Coil Yard of the Mill on Friday, said, ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, OCT 28, 2022 The state-of-the-art Hot Strip Mill-2 (HSM-2) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) surpassed the major milestone of 1 million tonne coil production on Thursday within six and half months of its commissioning. Congratulating the collective, RSP Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick who joined the celebrations held at the Coil Yard of the Mill on Friday, said, ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, OCT 26, 2022 In an attempt to further expand and enrich the product basket of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) and meet market expectations, the Hot Strip Mill-2 of RSP has successfully rolled out HR coils in SAILCOR grade with 1250 mm width and 2.0 mm thickness for the first time on Tuesday. The HSM-2 collective is committed ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, OCT 14, 2022 Taking a major step forward in the field of environment management, a state-of-the-art Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) of 4 Million Litre Per Day capacity was inaugurated at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) by SAIL Chairman Soma Mondal on Thursday. The Chairman switched on the facility to start the operation of the plant, built at an ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, OCT 6, 2022 The Coal Chemical Department (CCD) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has added a new feather to its cap by registering best ever monthly Crude Tar Dispatch of 8429 tonnes in the month of September 2022. The Department has generated highest monthly revenue to the tune of Rs. 56 crore for the company through sales ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, SEPT 26, 2022 The Pipe Plant (ERW) of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has broken a 39-year record by producing 552 tonnes of pipes on September 25, 2022 to achieve the highest ever single-day production. The earlier best single-day production of the unit was 542 tonnes, achieved on March 24, 1983. RSP Director In-Charge (DIC) Atanu Bhowmick visited ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, SEPT 02, 2022 Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has supplied the entire specialty DMR grade steel for the nation’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which was commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Cochin Shipyard in Kerala today. In a major feat and towards building an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, SAIL has supplied about ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUGUST 25, 2022 SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been conferred with Greentech Environment Award-2022 and Greentech Export Award-2022 for its outstanding performance in the respective areas. On behalf of RSP, CGM (New Plate Mill) Pinaki Choudhury, GM In-charge (Oxygen Plant) Asha Kartha and GM In charge (Environment Engineering) PK Das received the awards in a glittering ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUGUST 1, 2022 The Silicon Steel Mill (SSM) of SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has set a new monthly production record by rolling 6,626 tonnes of saleable steel in July, 2022 surpassing the previous best recorded in July, 2013. RSP Director In-Charge (DIC) Atanu Bhowmick visited the SSM Shop Floor on Monday to congratulate the SSM collective ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 20, 2022 The Hot Strip Mill-2 (HSM-2) of SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered best ever single-day production by rolling 6,689 tons of hot rolled coils on Sunday. The previous best single-day production of 6,542 tons was achieved on March 30 this year. The state-of-the-art HSM-2 has been setting records ever since it started rolling ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 11, 2022 Enhancing efficiency is crucial for wealth creation, said Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick while laying emphasis on the global investments, generation of large-scale employment opportunities, role of unicorn startups, etc. Speaking at a conference on “Creating Wealth through Markets” organised by the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) at ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MAY 8, 2022        SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been rendering invaluable contribution in nation building by developing a wide range of newer grade import substitute products as well as high strength defence grade steel. Sustained focus on R&D and best in class manufacturing facilities has helped the Steel Plant to make foray into the elite ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 18, 2022 The employees of the Structural and Fabrication Shop of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) have displayed their skill and expertise once again by reviving and reinstalling a defective and unused CNC profile cutting machine of Blast Furnace#5 by using in-house resources. The revived CNC profile cutting machine was inaugurated recently at the Structural and Fabrication ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 8, 2022 An in-house fabricated Sample Collection Trolley for Track Hopper–2 site of the Raw Material Handling Plant of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) was inaugurated recently by Atish Chandra Sarkar, CGM (Quality) and SS Roychoudhary, CGM (RMHP). Notably, iron ores (fines) received from various sources from SAIL mines are unloaded in Track Hopper-2 and Track Hopper-3. ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 4, 2022 A series of records and benchmarks were set by SAIL-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in the Financial Year 2021-22 in varied fields of endeavour right from production and productivity to techno-economics and projects. Annual Business Plan (ABP) targets were achieved in number of areas for the first time while many old Mills too recorded ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 30, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has set a fresh record in single-day hot metal production. The three Blast Furnaces (BF) of the plant namely BF-1, BF-4 and BF-5 produced 16,167 tonnes hot metal on Tuesday to achieve the feat, surpassing the previous single-day best of 15,505 tonnes registered on March 27, 2021. Similarly, Blast Furnace-5 ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 23, 2022             The Blast Furnace-I Parvati of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) that was re-commissioned after upgradation on May 9, 2018, has surpassed the 3 Million Tonnes (MT) mark in hot metal production on March 21. RSP Director In-Charge Atanu Bhowmick visited the Department and congratulated the larger Blast Furnace collective on this commendable performance. Bhowmick ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 11, 2022 The state-of-the-art New Plate Mill of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has surpassed the 5 Million Tonnes (MT) production mark on Thursday. The ultra-modern Mill began its journey with commencement of rolling in the year 2014. It produced the last one million tonnes of Plates in a record 13 months which signifies its high rate ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 While celebrating International Women’s Day on Tuesday, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) will also cheer its large number of women employees who have not only excelled in various fields of endeavours but have also forayed into many a field earlier known as ‘male bastions’. Women can now be seen on Shop floors, operating cranes and pulpits ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 3, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of state-run SAIL, kept the graph rising in all key production areas in the first eleven months of the current financial year i.e. FY22. In the April 2021-February 2022 period, RSP was successful in producing  39,27,790 tons of  hot metal, 36,18,231 tons of crude steel and 33,16,518 tons of saleable ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, FEBRUARY 9, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has administered more than 11,200 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the employees, dependants, ex-employees, contract workers, residents of servant quarters, slum dwellers and general public. RSP has purchased 12,000 Covishield doses and the vaccination is still going on for the persons above 18 years of age, at the Rehabilitation Centre ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JANUARY 14, 2022            State-run Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been certified by the Indian Navy to produce high strength DMR Grade steel for use in making submarines, a senior Naval officer said. “SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant has received the certification for producing DMR Grade high strength steel and this steel will be used by Indian Navy ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, DEC 6, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has won the prestigious Greentech Environment Award 2021 for outstanding achievements in environment protection. The award was presented to the leading steel producer of the region at the Annual Greentech Award function held in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu recently. RK Patra, CGM (SMS-I) and PC Das, GM (EMD), RSP received ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, SEPT 11, 2021 An in-house technological intervention by a team of employees of Continuous Casting Shop-I (CCM-1), the casting shop of Steel Melting Shop-I, has helped Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) accrue huge savings and optimize operational efficiency. The team has successfully developed and installed a Propane Gas fuelled Sub-Entry Nozzle (SEN) Preheating Assembly at Tundish Car of ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKWELA, SEPT 9, 2021  An overhauled Turbo Blower-I was commissioned at Power Blowing Station (PBS) of CPP-I of Rourkela Steel Plant on Tuesday in presence of S R Suryawanshi, ED (Works). A manual on overhauling with photographs of different stages of overhauling was also released on the occasion by the ED (Works). The major overhaul of Turbo Blower-I ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, SEPT 4, 2021 In line with the National Steel Policy, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) plans to increase its annual Hot Metal production capacity from the current level of 4.5 Million Tonnes per Annum (MTPA) to 4.855 MTPA. Simultaneously, Crude Steel Production of RSP, a unit of Maharatna company SAIL, will go up from 4.2 MTPA to 4.85 ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUG 11, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has registered the best ever monthly specific energy consumption of 5.91 Giga calories per tonne of crude steel (Gcal/TCS) in July, 2021. The remarkable achievement in the key techno-economic front compliments the record production performances by major units of the Steel Plant. Notably, the previous best monthly specific energy consumption ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, AUG 5, 2021             Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Maharatna Steel Company SAIL, registered its best ever monthly crude steel production in July, 2021. RSP produced 3,63,095 tonnes of crude steel in the said month, thereby improving its earlier best record of 3,62,319 tonnes achieved in December, 2020. Moreover, crude steel production also went up ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 5, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) joined the rest of the world in observing World Environment Day on Saturday. RSP CEO Dipak Chattaraj hoisted the Environment Flag at Shilpa Konark premises in presence of senior executives and employees of the company. The Environment pledge was administered to all present on the occasion. Environment badges were also ...