SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in India has achieved new production milestones at its 4.3-meter-wide plate mill supplied by Danieli, surpassing the facility’s rated annual capacity for the second consecutive year.
Designed to produce 920,000 tons of plate products annually, the mill recorded output of 993,000 tons during the latest production cycle, setting a new annual production record.
The plant also established several operational benchmarks, including daily plate production exceeding 5,100 tons, slab rolling of more than 380 slabs in a single day, and shift production surpassing 1,800 tons. According to Danieli, these achievements underscore the reliability of the mill’s equipment, automation systems, and process control technologies.
The plate mill manufactures a wide range of high-grade products, including API pipeline steels, shipbuilding plates, and specialty grades for advanced engineering and defense applications.
Danieli said the facility’s plate-rolling technology enables the production of wide-width plates with tight dimensional tolerances while offering the flexibility to meet changing domestic and export market requirements.
India’s Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), inaugurated in 1959 in Odisha, is India’s first public-sector integrated steel plant and a key unit of SAIL. Located in a mineral-rich region with strong rail links, it has a capacity of 4.5 mln tons per annum hot metal and 4.2 mln tons per annum crude steel, producing a range of flat products including HRC, plates, silicon steel, and pipes for the oil and gas sector.
SAIL currently produces around 20.6 mln tons of crude steel annually and is targeting an expansion to 35 mln tons per year by FY2031. The company operates five integrated steel plants and three special steel plants across India, producing a wide range of flat, long, special, and railway steel products.