Siemens to equip SAIL's Bokaro Steel Plant cold rolling mills

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will equip the new cold rolling mill of the Bokaro Steel Plant located in Jharkhand with turnkey process technology. This follows Steel Authority of India (SAIL) having awarded order, valued at triple-digit million euros to the Indian arm of the German engineering company.

With a raw steel output of around 13 million metric tons per year, SAIL is the largest steel producer in India. The company operates integrated iron and steel complexes at five Indian locations including additional production plants for alloyed steel and iron alloys.

It already operates two cold rolling mills at its Bokaro location and is investing Rs2,500 crore in the construction of the new cold mill plant, which is to be used to produce high-quality steel grades for applications in the automotive industry.

The new cold rolling mill will have a capacity of around 1.3-million metric tons per year and is scheduled to take up production in 2010.

SAIL produces a wide range of steel products for the Indian construction, energy, railroad and automotive industries, as well as for export.

Siemens will be responsible for the design, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the core lines of the new cold mill plant, which include a coupled tandem pickling line, a hot-dip galvanising line and an electrolytic strip cleaning line.