SAIL commissions two facilities in its Bhilai plant

As part of ongoing expansion and modernisation programme, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has commissioned two facilities in its Bhilai plant. The two units, a sinter machine and a coke oven battery, have been built with an investment of around Rs 2,000 crore.

The setting up of the two facilities forms a part of the Rs 17,265 crore capex being deployed in the company’s flagship plant for raising its hot metal capacity to 7.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).

SAIL is India's largest steel producing company. The company is among the five Maharatnas of the country's Central Public Sector Enterprises. The company has five integrated steel plants, three special plants, and one subsidiary in different parts of the country.