The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd - Visakhapatnam steel plant is all set to achieve normal production levels in a week's time, according to Chairman and Managing Director P. Madhusudan.
In a press release here on Saturday, he expressed happiness over the revival of production in the plant and regeneration of greenery at RINL which was badly hit by Hudhud on October 12. The critical units like coke ovens and blast furnaces have all been revived and production commenced from sinter plant and steel melt shop (SMS) as well. To scale up the production and to start the rolling mills, the RINL is in the process of strengthening the power supply line from the State grid.
He attributed the speedy recovery to the tireless efforts of the RINL Collective. "The RINL is all set to revive production in all the units and scale up volumes close to normal levels in about a week’s time," he added.