India’s state-run steel producer Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) is aiming to bring two of its idled blast furnaces back into operation by August, company sources said on Monday, June 22.
The sources said that the two blast furnaces which were idled in April at the height of national lockdown owing to pandemic will be brought back into operation from their current ‘cold’ state in a phased manner and that the process would be completed by August.
The 7.6 million mt RINL steel mill in the southern Indian port town of Vishakhapatnam has three blast furnaces of 2.5 million mt per annum capacity each and is currently operating only one blast furnace producing 6,000 mt of hot metal per day, the sources said.
