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Steel plant signs 1500-cr pact for third blast furnace

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Furnace to be commissioned in 30 months

EXPANSION MODE: Visakhapatnam Steel Plant CMD P.K. Bishnoi (right) exchanging contract documents with Paul Wurth, Italy - Larsen & Toubro, India, in Visakhapatnam on Friday.

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) on Friday signed an agreement with a consortium - Paul Wurth of Italy and Larsen and Toubro of India - for the construction and commissioning of the Rs.1,500 crore third blast furnace as part of its 6.3 million tonnes per annum expansion plan.

The furnace will be commissioned in 30 months and the foreign component involved in this is about Rs.600 crore. VSP Executive Director (projects) A.K. Banerjee signed the agreement in the presence of its Chairman and Managing Director P.K. Bishnoi. A release said the project is envisaged on a total turnkey concept including all civil, structural, electrical and automation works involved for commissioning of blast furnace.

The state-of-the-art technology in blast furnace operation like coal dust injection, oxygen enrichment, copper cooling plates, level-2 automation is incorporated to achieve the best productivity levels and energy conservation measures. The blast furnace will be of 3,800 cubic metres volume with a production of 2.5 million tonnes per annum, which is among the biggest in the Indian steel industry.

Coke oven battery

Mr. Banerjee earlier laid the last silica refractory brick for the ongoing works relating to the fourth coke oven battery, which is expected to be commissioned by October this year.

A total of 14,500 metric tonnes of silica refractory bricks are used in the battery whose mechanical, structural, electrical and instrumentation jobs are expected to be completed by July this year.

VSP is having three coke oven batteries of seven meter tall and 67 ovens each, the biggest in the country.

GM (projects) N.G. Sahoo was present on the occasion.

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