SAIL's CMO meets key customers to create awareness about company's new products

KOLKATA: Steel Authority of India's Central Marketing Organisation (CMO) met with a dozen of its key customers at its headquarters in the city to create awareness about some of the company's new products. These products are being produced from new mills that have come up under SAIL's recent modernisation & expansion programme. This include the Universal Section Mill of IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), Medium Structural Mill of Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) and new Plate Mill of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP).

As many as twelve major customers of SAIL in the eastern region, including RITES, Bridge & Roof, L&T MMH, BBJ, WBSEDCL, Lahmeyer India, Simplex Infra Structures, Wadia Techno Engg Services, Lloyds Insulations, Tata Growth Shop, M.N Dastur & Co. and KMC, attended the meet.

Speaking on the ocassion, SAIL's General Manager (Marketing-Long Products) K B Sundar informed that its latest range of structurals have been well accepted across the country owing to its scope for use in a range of applications. The company's newly developed value-added seismic-grade rebar – SAIL TMT 500S – for use in metro rail, industrial projects and high rises in earthquake-prone areas is also likely to find acceptance in the market, he added. Providing an overview on the size range of SAIL’s plates, V K Sahni, DGM (M-FP), gave an introduction to the latest technology at New Plate Mill of RSP.

Earlier A K Arora, DGM (M-LP), informed the gathering about the qualitative aspects of the Parallel Flange range of structurals from ISP/DSP. The two mills have the capacity to produce 1.85 million tonnes of high grade structural annually.