Durgapur Steel Plant – Durgapur
Brief Description of the project
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is one of the largest steel-making companies in India and one of the Maharatnas of the country’s Central Public Sector Enterprises. SAIL produces iron and steel at five integrated plants and three special steel plants. Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) is a 2.2 MTPA integrated steel plant of SAIL situated at Durgapur in West Bengal. DSP has employee strength of about 8,000 people and is a major landmark in the industrial canvas of Eastern India. SAIL-DSP product basket caters to construction (TMT bars), transportation (Railway wheel), infrastructure (Light & Medium Structural) and power transmission sector (Bloom, Billets for re-rollers). DSP has been supplying railway wheels to Indian Railways since 1960 from its Wheel & Axle Plant.
The Wheel & axle Plant in Durgapur is one of the pioneer forged railway wheel manufacturing facilities in India. For decade’s it has been successfully catered to the requirement of Indian Railways, its major customer. The plant is producing wheels manufactured as per the latest IRS specifications. The product is very quality sensitive.
