Bhilai Steel Plant

SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant
IndustryMetallurgical Process
Founded1955
HeadquartersBhilai, Chhattisgarh, India
Key people
Anirban Dasgupta (CEO)
ProductsRails, Plates, Structurals, Rebars and Wire Rods
ParentSteel Authority of India Limited
Websitesail.co.in/bhilai-steel-plant

The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is India's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. The plant also produces steel and markets various chemical by-products from its coke ovens and coal chemical plant. It was set up with the help of the USSR in 1955.[1]

Bhilai Steel Plant is eleven-time winner of the Prime Minister's Trophy for best integrated steel plant in the country.[2] The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest railway tracks, which measure 260 metres (850 ft).[3] The 130 - meter rail, which would be the world's longest rail line in a single piece, was rolled out on 29 November 2016.[4] The plant also produces products such as wire rods and merchant products. It has been the flagship integrated steel plant unit of the Public Sector steel company, the Steel Authority of India Limited and is its largest and most profitable production facility.[5]

The Bhilai Steel plant was established with Russian collaboration in Durg district of Chhattisgarh and started production in 1959. Agarias, A community of iron smelters helped the discovery of a source of iron ore for Bhilai Steel Plant.

  1. ^ "The Bhilai Steel Plant". Field to Factory: Film and ethnography of industrialisation in Chhattisgarah, Central India. Jandarshan and LSE. Archived from the original on 5 April 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Prime Minister hands over PM'S Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant in the Country to BHILAI Steel Plant". SAIL. 4 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ Mazumdar, Rakhi. "Bhilai Steel records its best ever loading for dispatch to Indian Railways". The Economic Times. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ Das, R Krishna (30 November 2016). "SAIL-BSP starts production of world's longest single-piece rail". Business Standard. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  5. ^ Bose, Kunal (1 July 2013). "New generation rails will be Bhilai Steel's crown jewel". Business Standard. Retrieved 26 January 2019.

Bhilai Steel Plant

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