P K Rath, CMD,RINL-VSP inaugurated the ‘Twin Ladle Heating Furnace’ (TLHF) in Steel Melt Shop-2 on 30th Oct. The cost of building the project was around Rs.109 Crore in the existing Steel Melt Shop-2 area of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. He congratulated the SMS-2 collective and agencies who were involved in the achievement and also said the commissioning of Twin LHF would enhance the production capabilities of RINL.
K C Das, Director (Personnel), Sri D K Mohanty, Director (Commercial), Sri K K Ghosh, Director (Projects), Sri A K Saxena, Director (Operations), Sri R Nagarajan, ED(Projects) I/C, Sri KV Vidyasagar, ED(Works) I/c, senior officials and representatives of unions, SEA,SC&ST, OBC Association were present on the occasion.
The new facility is installed to cater to the enhanced liquid steel production after expansion to 7.3 Mtpa from the 6.3 Mtpa phase. TLHF is envisaged to strengthen the secondary metallurgy section of Steel Melt Shop-2, i.e., to increase the temperature of the molten steel and adjustment of the chemical composition to optimize the process route. Commissioning of TLHF will benefit the production of high-Value Added Steel(VAS) products. The Twin LHF has the capacity to process 40 heat per day from both the Heating Furnaces.
