On September 3, Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) announced that in August it achieved sales of 1.1 million metric tons of steel in the domestic market, registering a growth of 20 percent year on year and 13 percent over the previous month. More than 30 percent of the producer's sales in August were in special steel and in the value-added steel category.
In August, the company registered its best key techno-economic parameter performances in blast furnace productivity, coke rate and specific energy consumption.