The Indian Iron and Steel Company Limited

IISCO Steel Plant

Type	Public Sector Undertaking, a unit of Steel Authority of India
Industry	Iron & Steel
Founded	1918
Headquarters	Burnpur, Asansol
Key people	Anirban Dasgupta (CEO)
Products	Wire & Coil, TMT Rods, Z section, I section, Angles, Channels, Pig Iron etc.
Number of employees	6998 As on 01.01.2018

IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited is an integrated steel plant located at Burnpur, a neighbourhood in Asansol, in Asansol subdivision of Paschim 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.

Established in 1918, the Indian Iron & Steel Company, once the flag ship of the Martin Burn group, was amalgamated with SAIL in 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant.

The modernisation and expansion programme of IISCO steel plant was completed at a cost of over 16,000 crores.As of 2015, it was the single largest investment in West Bengal till then.

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, laid the foundation for the green field modernisation and expansion of IISCO Steel Plant at Burnpur on 24 December 2006. Others present on the occasion included Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief minister of West Bengal, Ram Vilas Paswan, union minister for chemicals & fertilisers and steel, and Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, union minister for information & broadcasting.

After expansion and modernisation, it was inaugurated by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, at Burnpur on 10 May 2015. Others present on the occasion included Keshari Nath Tripathi, governor of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, Narendra Singh Tomar, union minister of state for steel and mines, Vishnudeo Sai, union minister of state for urban development, and Babul Supriyo, member of parliament from Asansol.