IISCO Steel Plant
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| Public Sector Undertaking, a unit of Steel Authority of India | |
| Industry | Iron & Steel |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Headquarters | Burnpur, Asansol |
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Key people
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Rajesh Kumar Rathi (CEO) |
| Products | Structurals, Rods, Pig Iron |
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Number of employees
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9,000 |
IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited, located at Burnpur, a neighbourhood in Asansol, in Asansol subdivision of Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India.
IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India at Burnpur has a crude steel production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per year.The modernisation and expansion programme of IISCO Steel Plant was flagged off by Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, in December 2006, implemented with an investment of over Rs 16,000 crore, and was dedicated to the nation by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, on 10 May 2015.Established in 1918, the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO), once the flag ship of the Martin Burn group, was amalgamated with SAIL in 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant.
IISCO Steel plant has state-of-the-art facilities at Burnpur. The main units are described below:
Coke Ovens: Coke Oven Battery No. 10 has 78 ovens with a height of 4.5 m and COB No. 11 has 74 ovens with a height of 7 m. It has a dry cooling plant using inert gases.
Sinter Plant: Two sinter machines each with grate area of 204 m2
Blast Furnace: The 4,160 m3Blast Furnace Kalyani is one of the largest in the country. It uses high blast temperarure, oxygen enrichment, high top pressure and pilverised coal injection technology.
Basic Oxygen Furnace: Three 150-tonne capacity BOFs to produce about 2.55 million tonnes of liquid steel annually. It is equipped with features like combined blowing and computerised operations.
Continuous Casters: Two 6-strand Billet Casters and one 4-strand Bloom-cum-Beam Blank Casters.
Rolling Mills : One Bar Mill and one Wire Rod Mill to produce 0.75 million tonnes of high quality bars and 0.5 million tonnes of wire rods per year. One Universal Section Mill to produce 0.6 million tonnes of universal section products per year.
Several attempts were made in India in the 18th and 19th centuries to produce iron and steel, but none of them succeeded. In 1870, James Erskine founded the Bengal Iron Works at a place which is now known as Kulti. The local people used to call it “Kendwa Karkhana”. His open top blast furnaces using raw coal (instead of charcoal), poor grade iron ore available locally, and bullock carts for transportation, went into operation in 1875. The plant closed down after three years of operations because there was no demand for the pig iron it produced. The government departments, such as the Public Works Department, used iron castings and so they were interested and the plant was taken over by the government in 1881 and renamed Barakar Iron Works. In 1889, it was taken over by the newly formed Bengal Iron & Steel Co. In 1892 Martin & Company came in as managing agents. Around 1904, Bengal Iron & Steel Co. installed facities for producing steel. It went into production but closed down after two years as the operations were unremunerative. In 1918, G.H.Fairhurst took over as general manager of Bengal Iron & Steel Co. By then the company was doing well and even exporting pig iron to Japan, the Far East, Mesopotamia and Russia, but the directors of the company, living in London, were not interested in expanding its business any further.
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