2023 a promising year for RINL
The potential and commitment of the employees will lead the company towards another memorable year, says CMD Atul Bhatt
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Visakhapatnam: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has achieved a sales turnover of Rs 2,508 crore, the highest in the month of December since inception.
In his New Year address to the senior executives and other stakeholders, Chairman-cum-Managing Director Atul Bhatt said, "I am confident that 2023 will be a very promising year for RINL." He expressed his strong belief in the potential and commitment of the employees and exhorted them to put their act together to make 2023 a memorable year for the company.
Speaking on achievements in the current FY so far (April 1 to December 31, 2022), he said there were quite a few feathers in the cap of production collective such as best production of hot metal in Blast Furnace-1 and BF-2 for any calendar year with a production of 2.12 Mt (million tonnes) and 2.2 Mt, respectively and, generation of 8,500 tonnes a day - a new peak for BF-2 and production of 16,200 tonnes a day was the best daily production from any two furnaces since inception.
In Steel Melt Shop-2, 15 heats in a shift and 44 heats in the day were new shifts and day peaks from any single converter operation. In SMS-1, best lining life of 6,753 heats was achieved in September, 2022 from Convertor-C.
The year (April-December, 2022) also saw RINL achieving another milestone in its effort towards maintaining a leadership position in energy conservation. RINL was awarded "National Energy Leader" consecutively for four years after winning Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award for six consecutive years from 2017 to 2022 by CII Godrej Green Business Center at Hyderabad.
