SAIL shines on plan to establish universal rail mill at Bhilai

09 Feb 2012 Evaluate

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is currently trading at Rs. 106.40, up by 1.45 points or 1.38% from its previous closing of Rs. 104.95 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 104.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 106.90 and Rs. 104.00 respectively. So far 142372 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 177.30 on 06-Apr-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs. 73.00 on 19-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 109.40 and Rs. 104.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 43783.57 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 85.82% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 11.18% and 2.99% respectively. 

State-owned, SAIL is planning to establish universal rail mill with 1.2 million tonne capacity at its Bhilai facility in Chhattisgarh. In this regard, the company will invest Rs 1,600 crore to produce heavy rails for the first time in India.

The mill has been designed to produce heavier rail sections up to 75 kg/m and head-hardened rails for the first time in India. The mill is likely to be operational by next year. Till date, SAIL has supplied over 16 million tonnes of rails to the Railways with a total rail length of around 4 lakh km, enough to encircle the earth 9.5 times.

Recently, SAIL had bestowed with ‘MOU Excellence Award’ in the Mining & Metals category. Starting from 2002-03, it is for the eighth consecutive year that SAIL has won the MOU Excellence Award.

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