STEEL MELTING SHOP - 1

Steel Melting Sop - 1 (SMS-1) follows the conventional route of steel making in which steel is produced through Twin Hearth furnaces and cast into ingot moulds. The ingots are stripped off from the ingot moulds and are sent to BBM for further heating and rolling into blooms.

Initially SMS-I was set up to produce 1 MT steel annually, from 6 Open-Hearth furnaces of 250 T capacity each. First tapping was done on 12th October 1959. Sixth Open-hearth furnace was commissioned on 22nd February 1961. Later on it was decided by the corporate management to increase the capacity of the shop to 2.5 MT, by installing 4 more open hearth furnaces of 500 T capacity and converting OH no. 6 from 250 T to 500 T capacity, which was completed on 14th April 1967.