Abstract
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is an Indian state-owned steel manufacturing company which runs the Salem Steel Plant (SSP). SSP is pioneer in the supply of wider width stainless steel sheets and coils in India. The plant can produce austenitic, martensitic, ferritic and low-nickel stainless steel in the form of sheets and coils. The total installed capacity is 70,000 tonnes and 3,64,000 tonnes per year in cold rolling mill and hot rolling mill respectively. In addition to the above, SSP has India’s first top-of-the-line stainless steel blanking facility for coin or utility blanks. SSP is equipped with three major units namely steel melting shop (SMS), hot rolling mill (HRM) and cold rolling mill (CRM). Hot rolling mill of salem steel plant is basically designed to roll stainless steel slabs. The various facilities of hot rolling mill include reheating furnace, roughing mill, steckel mill or finishing mill, down coiler and roll shop. This paper mainly discuss about the various improvement measures that are adopted to enhance the productivity and quality of hot rolling mill in SSP.
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