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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

22:34

SAIL to supply 18m Finished Length Steel for Iran’s Rail Expansion plan

SAIL to supply 18m Finished Length Steel for Iran’s Rail Expansion plan

New Delhi: State-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) would supply rails for the major railway network expansion plan in Iran.

SAIL has bagged an export contract to supply about 100,000 tonne of rails to Iran from its flagship entity Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), which has been the sole producer of rail for the company.

The export order for rails is in 18 metre finished lengths. The Plant supplies world class rails to Indian Railways in lengths of 13 and 26 metre from its existing Rail Mill besides 130 and 260 metre rails from its Long Rail Complex.

Since BSP is not producing 18 metre rails as demanded by the authorities in Iran, it is installing new equipment to facilitate the supply.

“Special equipment is being procured from overseas suppliers for creating new facilities in the existing Rail and Structural Mill of BSP,” a company spokesperson told Business Standard. Besides a new Hot Stamping Machine from Germany, BSP is procuring a new NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) facility from Austria.

The new NDT facility would include online straightness measurement, online profile measurement and online twist measurement equipment.

The Mill as well as the Long Rail Complex are already equipped with state of the art facilities for rail finishing and testing including hot stamping and NDT facilities. The new equipment is being procured to cater to the specific needs of the export order to Iran.

The Plant had earlier also exported steel to Iran in 1967, 1969 and 1976. In all, 275,000 tonnes was dispatched from BSP. The country is now planning modernisation and major expansion of its rail network.

Iran plans to invest $25bn over the next ten years in the modernisation and expansion projects. The investment is expected to extend Iran Railways’ track length from the current 15,000km to 25,000km by 2025.
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Thursday, 29 October 2015

17:47

JSPL plan to enter into Indian Railways Market

JSPL plan to enter into Indian Railways Market

260-meter rail powers JSPL's railways entry

Company bagged the order from the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

The 260-meter rail produced by the Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) would power company’s plan to enter into Indian Railways market dominated by the state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).  

The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), SAIL’s flagship entity in Chhattisgarh, had been the lone supplier of rails to the Indian Railways (IR) under a long term agreement for the last six and a half decades. The plant had been supplying around 700,000 to 800,000 tonnes of rails per annum to the IR. In 2004, it started supplying long rails to IR, starting from 130-meter to 260-meter. The highest profit making entity of the SAIL would now have a competitor in the rail market as JSPL had also started producing 260-meter rails.

JSPL bagged the order from the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) and supplied the 260-meter long rails that would be used for the construction of the eastern corridor of the landmark 350-km dedicated freight railway network in India. Country’s leading integrated steel maker was now eyeing to bag the order from the IR where it had failed to make entry despite moving to the competition commission of India (CCI).

“If there was a fair competition, JSPL would access to the IR market as its product matched all specifications,” Pradeep Tandon, Executive Vice President of JSPL, said. The private parties should be allowed to supply rails to the IR, he said, adding that the 260-meter rail produced by the JSPL matched the world-class standards and would strengthen company’s plan for bagging IR supply contracts. The JSPL, which previously supplied rail tracks to leading infrastructure companies such as Delhi Metro, Kochi Metro, L&T, NTPC, Tata Steel, JSW etc,  had also been eyeing to supply the new product for metro rails and bullet train.

The SAIL officials are however confident of retaining the IR market monopoly. “It is unlikely that JSPL claim of starting construction of 260-meter long rail will pose any threat to SAIL-BSP,” the company spokesperson told Business Standard. As rail makers to the Nation, BSP has been an integral part of the day to day operations of IR, he said and added that BSP had been progressively improving standards to roll out world class rails as per stringent specifications of the IR.

A new and modern 1.2 MTPA (million tonnes per annum) Universal Rail Mill (URM) will soon be commissioned at Bhilai along with a new Rail Welding Line that has already been installed. The Plant will supply rails to IR in finished lengths of 130-meter, the longest produced anywhere in the world, as a single piece without any weld joints from this new Mill. The spokesperson claimed that the Plant would also be able to supply still longer rails to IR measuring upto length of 520-meter

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