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Siemens Ltd in consortia with Siemens AG has bagged an order from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd to modernise its blast furnace at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
Siemens Ltd’s share of the order is Rs 271 crore. Siemens in India said the modernisation would boost the furnace’s inner volume from 3,200 to 3,820 cubic metres and production from 1.7 million tonnes (mt) a year to 2.5 mt a year. The
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in Andhra Pradesh is an integrated steelworks with an annual capacity of about 6.3 mt of crude iron.
The modernisation is part of an expansion project to boost the annual pig iron production to 7.3 mt.
The plant now operates three blast furnaces — two with an interior volume of 3,200 cubic metres and one with 3800 cubic metres.
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