History of Bokaro:- AKB NEWS

 Bokaro Steel Plant is a public sector steel plant in India which was built in collaboration with the Soviet Union. It is located in Bokaro, Jharkhand. This plant is known as India's first indigenous steel plant.

In 1964 it was incorporated as a limited company. Later it was merged with Steel Authority of India Limited, Government of India. Earlier it was known as 'Bokaro Steel Limited' (BSL). Its first blast furnace was commissioned on 2 October 1972.

Presently it has 5 blast furnaces which have the capacity to produce 4.5 metric tonnes of liquid steel. Major modernization of this plant is being done, upon completion of which its capacity will reach above 10 tonnes.

The product

Bokaro manufactures flats like Hot Rolled Coils, Hot Rolled Plates, Hot Rolled Sheets, Cold Rolled Coils, Cold Rolled Sheets, Tin Mill Black Plates (TMBP) and Galvanized Plain and Corrugated (GP/GC) sheets. The factory has created a strong raw material base for many modern engineering industries including automobile, pipe and tube, LPG cylinder, barrel and drum manufacturing industries.

• Hot Rolled Coils

• Hot Rolled Plates

• Hot Rolled Sheets

• Cold Rolled Coils

• Cold Rolled Sheets

• Tin Mill Black Plates (TMBP)

• Galvanised Plain and Corrugated (GP/GC) Sheets

History

Bokaro Steel Plant is the fourth steel plant in the public sector. It started in 1965 with the cooperation of the Soviet Union. It was initially incorporated as a limited company on 29 January 1964 and later merged with SAIL. It was first a subsidiary of SAIL and later a unit under the Public Sector Iron and Steel Companies (Reorganization and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1978. The construction work of the factory started on 6 April 1968.

This factory is famous as the country's first indigenous steel factory. In this, most of the equipment, equipment and technical skills are indigenous. The first phase of the 1.7 million ton steel ingot of the factory started on 2 October 1972 with the commissioning of the first blast furnace and the construction work was completed on 26 February 1978 after the third blast furnace was commissioned. All the 4 million ton stage units have been commissioned and with modernization in the 1990s, the factory's capacity has been increased to 4.5 million ton liquid steel.

New facilities installed at its Steel Melting Shop-2 include 2 twin strand slab casters and a steel refining unit. The Steel Refining Unit was inaugurated on 19 September 1997 and Continuous Casting Machine was inaugurated on 25 April 1998. With the modernization of Hot Strip Mill, facility of high pressure de-scaler, work roll banding, hydraulic automatic gauge control, quick roll change, laminar cooling etc. has also become available in the factory. The new walking beam, re-heating furnaces are replacing the older less efficient pusher furnaces.

A new hydraulic coil has also been installed and two already working coils have been improved. With the completion of modernization of Hot Strip Mill, now Bokaro Steel Plant is producing very good quality hot rolled products and they are in good demand in the world market.

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