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SAIL steel production up by 6 per cent in Q1 current fiscal

Rourkela: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has achieved the highest ever Q1 production of saleable steel at 3.2 million tonnes (MT), up by 6 per cent over corresponding period last year (CPLY). In the first quarter of the current fiscal, SAIL has registered impressive growth in various production and techno-economic parameters. Production of value added steel touched the best ever Q1 mark, at 1.28 MT, a year-over-year growth of 4 per cent. Efficiency of production also got a boost with specific energy consumption at 6.57 giga calorie per tonne of crude steel, lower by 1 per cent than CPLY, and BF productivity of 1.57 t/Cum/day, better by 2 per cent. As for the month of June 2013, saleable steel production of 1.08 MT was higher by 7 per cent compared to same month last year. The Modernisation & Expansion programme (MEP) received new fillip during the quarter with the commissioning of new Coke Oven Battery No. 6 at SAIL Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) on June 1, 2