Steel Authority of India Limited

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) (NSE: SAIL) is one of the largest state-owned steel makers in India. With a turnover of Indian rupee48,681 crore (US$ 11.05 billion), the company is among the top five highest profit earning corporates of the country. It is a public sector undertaking which trades publicly in the market is wholly owned by Government of India  and acts like an operating company. Incorporated on January 24, 1973, SAIL has more than 131,910 employees. The company's current chairman is C.S Verma. With an annual production of 13.5 million metric tons, SAIL is the 16th largest steel producer in the world.

Major plants owned by SAIL are located at Bhilai, Bokaro, Durgapur, Rourkela, Burnpur (near Asansol) and Salem. SAIL is a public sector company, owned and operated by the Government of India. According to a recent survey, SAIL is one of India's fastest growing Public Sector Units.
History
[edit] 1959-1973

SAIL traces its origin to the Hindustan Steel Limited (HSL) which was set up on January 19, 1954. HSL was initially designed to manage only one plant that was coming up at Rourkela. For Bhilai and Durgapur Steel Plants, the preliminary work was done by the Iron and Steel Ministry. From April 1957, the supervision and control of these two steel plants were also transferred to Hindustan Steel. The registered office was originally in New Delhi. It moved to Calcutta in July 1956, and ultimately to Ranchi in December 1959.

A new steel company, Bokaro Steel Limited, was incorporated in January 1964 to construct and operate the steel plant at Bokaro. The 1 MT phases of Bhilai and Rourkela Steel Plants were completed by the end of December 1961. The 1 MT phase of Durgapur Steel Plant was completed in January 1962 after commissioning of the Wheel and Axle plant. The crude steel production of HSL went up from 1.58 MT (1959-60) to 1.6 MT. The second phase of Bhilai Steel Plant was completed in September 1967 after commissioning of the Wire Rod Mill. The last unit of the 1.8 MT phase of Rourkela - the Tandem Mill - was commissioned in February 1968, and the 1.6 MT stage of Durgapur Steel Plant was completed in August 1969 after commissioning of the Furnace in SMS. Thus, with the completion of the 2.5 MT stage at Bhilai, 1.8 MT at jjtjtjtRourkela and 1.6 MT at Durgapur, the total crude steel production capacity of HSL was raised to 3.7 MT in 1968-69 and subsequently to 4MT in 1972-73.
[edit] 1973-present

The Ministry of Steel and Mines drafted a policy statement to evolve a new model for managing industry. The policy statement was presented to the Parliament on December 2, 1972. On this basis the concept of creating a holding company to manage inputs and outputs under one umbrella was mooted. This led to the formation of Steel Authority of India Ltd. The company, incorporated on January 24, 1973 with an authorized capital of Rs. 2000 crore, was made responsible for managing five integrated steel plants at Bhilai, Bokaro, Durgapur, Rourkela and Burnpur, the Alloy Steel Plant and the Salem Steel Plant. In 1978 SAIL was restructured as an operating company.

Since its inception, SAIL has been instrumental in laying a sound infrastructure for the industrial development of the country. Besides, it has immensely contributed to the development of technical and managerial expertise. It has triggered the secondary and tertiary waves of economic growth by continuously providing the inputs for the consuming industry.

SAIL today is one of the largest industrial entities in India. Its strength has been the diversified range of quality steel products catering to the domestic, as well as the export markets and a large pool of technical and professional expertise.siva
[edit] Vision

To be a respected world class corporation and the leader in Indian steel business in quality, productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction.

SAIL Integrated Steel Plants

1) Bhilai Steel Plant

2) Durgapur Steel Plant

3) Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited

4) Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand

5) Vizag Steel Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

6) IISCO Steel Plant

Bhilai Steel Plant

Bhilai Steel Plant, located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, is India's only producer of steel rails, and is a major producer of steel plates and structural components. In the 2004-05 fiscal year, it was the Steel Authority of India Limited's most profitable plant.

This steel plant was set up with the help of the USSR. Nine - time winner of Prime Minister's Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant in the country, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is India's sole producer of rails and heavy steel plates and major producer of structural. The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 metres. With an annual production capacity of 3.153 MT of saleable steel, the plant also specializes in other products such as wire rods and merchant products. Since BSP is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Standard, all saleable products of Bhilai Steel Plant come under the ISO umbrella.

At Bhilai IS0:14001 has been awarded for Environment Management System in the Plant, Township and Dalli Mines. It is the only steel plant to get certification in all these areas. The Plant is accredited with SA: 8000 certification for social accountability and the OHSAS-18001 certification for Occupational health and safety. These internationally recognised certifications add value to Bhilai's products and helps create a place among the best organisations in the steel industry. Among the long list of national awards it has won, Bhilai has bagged the CII-ITC Sustainability award for three consecutive years. The company was more than 50 years old and it is unick himself by means of their production techonology.

Bhilai Steel Plant manages a well planned township (Bhilainagar) which as 13 sectors. PRODUCT-MIX TONNES/ANNUM Semis 5,33,000 Rail & Heavy Structural 7,50,000 Merchant Products (Angles, Channels, Round & TMT bars) 5,00,000 Wire Rods (TMT, Plain & Ribbed) 4,20,000 Plates (up to 3600 mm wide) 9,50,000 Total Saleable steel 31,53,000

Durgapur Steel Plant

Durgapur Steel Plant

Durgapur Steel Plant (Bengali: দুর্গাপুর ইস্পাত কারখানা) is one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited, located in Durgapur, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. It has played a historically important part in the industrial development of India. Although not a separate company, it is the largest industrial unit in the state of West Bengal.[citation needed]. It is the first Ingot(1960) Producing Steel Plant in India.Apart from it its the only steel plant in India which produces train wheels for all passenger cars which includes Rajdhani, Shatabdi Express.

Forged wheels are especially made here; in October 2010, DSP licensed technology from the Ukrainian manufacturer Interpipe which would allow it to make 955mm monobloc wheels.

Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited

Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited

Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant (VISL) , A unit of Steel Authority of India Limited, is a company involved in the production of alloy steels and pig iron and located in the city of Bhadravathi, India.[1] It was started as the Mysore Iron Works on January 18, 1923 by Sir M Visvesvaraya.[2] [3] It is now a steel plant under the jurisdiction of the Steel Authority of India LimitedHistory

The Iron Works were started by Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of Mysore, under the guidance of his Diwan, Sir M Visvesvaraya.[2] The main objective was to tap the rich iron ore deposits near Kemmanagundi in the Baba Budangiri hills and manufacture pig iron and other products.[4] A preliminary investigation of setting up an iron and steel factory at Bhadravathi was done in 1915-1916. This investigation was done by a New York based firm who explored the possibility of manufacturing pig iron with the use of charcoal fuel.[5] The years 1918-1922 were spent in setting up the factory. To start with, a wood distillation plant for manufacturing charcoal and blast furnace for smelting iron were setup in the factory.[5] Agencies were established in Madras, Ahmedabad and Karachi and a sales office was opened in Bombay.[6] A cast iron pipe plant, open hearth furnace, rolling mills and a cement plant were later added and the name of the factory was changed to The Mysore Iron and Steel Works. In 1939, the Shimoga-Talguppa railway line was laid, using wood from the Malnad forests were transported to this plant, to be used as a fuel in its furnaces. In 1952, two electric pig-iron surfaces were installed in the company, thereby making VISL the first iron and steel company in India to use electricity in the smelting of iron ore.[7] In 1962, the name was changed to The Mysore Iron and Steel Limted and the factory was converted into a Government company jointly owned by the Government of India and the Government of Karnataka with an equity share ratio of 40:60 respectively.[4] The year 1962 also saw the establishment of a new steel plant which could produce steel using the relatively new L D Process. In order to honour its founder, the company was renamed as Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited in 1975.[4] In 1989, it was taken over by the Steel Authority of India as a subsidiary entity and in 1998, VISL was merged into SAIL

Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand

Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand

Bokaro Steel Plant is located in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India built with Soviet help. It was incorporated as a limited company in the year 1964. It was later merged with the state owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).[1]
[edit] About the Plant

Formerly it was known as Bokaro Steel Limited (BSL). Bokaro Steel Plant is hailed as India's first swadeshi steel plant. Its first blast furnace was started on 2nd October 1972. At present it houses five blast furnaces with total capacity to produce 4.5 MT of liquid steel. The plant is undergoing a mass modernisation drive after which its output capacity is expected to cross 10 MT. The first shop of Bokaro Steel Plant got the ISO 9001 certification way back in 1994, and its SAIL JYOTI branded products enjoy a loyal market. Plant's yearly profit stood at 1,120 crores Indian rupee (INR) for the financial year 2003-04 and has increased every year since then reaching to 8,426 crores INR in the financial year 2007-08.
[edit] Products

Bokaro Steel Plant is designed to produce a wide range of flat products:

    * Hot Rolled Coils
    * Hot Rolled Plhiates
    * Hot Rolled Sheets
    * Cold Rolled Coils
    * Cold Rolled Sheets
    * Tin Mill Black Plates (TMBP)
    * Galvanised Plain and Corrugated (GP/GC) Sheets

Vizag Steel Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, popularly known as Vizag Steel (Telugu: విశాఖ ఉక్కు కర్మాగారం), is one of the major steel producers in India with Miniratna  status. Founded in 1971, the company focuses on producing value-added steel, with 214,000 tonnes produced in the month of August 2010, out of 252,000 tonnes total of saleable steel produced.[1] It is the only integrated steel plant in the country to be certified for ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and OSHAS 18001:1999
History - On 17th April 1970, the then prime minister of India, Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi announced the government‘s decision in the Parliament to establish a Steel plant at Visakhapatnam. The activities kicked off by appointing site selection committee in June 1970 and subsequently the committee‘s report was approved for site. On 20th Jan 1971 she laid the foundation stone. Consultants were appointed in Feb 1971 and feasibility reports were submitted in 1972. The first block of land was taken over on 7th April 1974. M/s M.N. Dastur & Co was appointed as the consultant for preparing the detailed Project report in April 1975 and in Oct 1977 they have submitted the report for 3.4 mtpa of liquid steel. With the offer for assistance from government of erstwhile USSR, a revised project concept was evolved. Detailed Project Report for a plant capacity of 3.4 Mtpa was prepared by M/s M.N. Dastur & Co in Nov 1980. In Feb 1981 the contract was signed with USSR for preparation of working drawings for Coke ovens, Blast Furnace and Sinter plant. The blast furnace foundation was laid with first mass concreting in the project in Jan 82. The construction of township also started.

A new company Rashtriya lspat Nigam Limited (RINL) was formed on 18th Feb 1982. Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was separated from SAIL and RINL was made the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in April 1982.

Vizag Steel Plant is the only Indias shore based steel plant and turnover in 2009-2010 was 10,600Crores and recently on its expansion from 3.1MT to 6.3MT. Its poised to become a World Class Organisation by expanding its capacity up to 20MT.

IISCO Steel Plant

IISCO Steel Plant

IISCO Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is located at Burnpur, near Asansol. The turbulent history of the plant, starting from its pioneering days, has found it a place in industrial history.

It was the second integrated steel plant, after Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (TISCO) at Jamshedpur, to come up in India and for many years, these two were the only steel plants in the country. It has rich history that goes back to the days when James Erskine pioneered the production of iron in this country at nearby Kulti. Modern metallurgy was introduced to India at Kulti with the setting up of the first blast furnace using coal instead of charcoal.
James Erskine founded the Bengal Iron Works in 1870. His open top furnaces using raw coal (instead of coke as is now done), poor grade iron ore available locally and bullock carts for transportation went into operation in 1875 at Kulti, then better known as Kendwa. It wa

s a big leap forward for Indian metallurgy. Although India had been producing steel from ancient times, all such attempts were made with charcoal. Coal was discovered in India in 1774 and coalmining started in the Asansol-Ranigunj area around 1820-1830.