Tata Steel recently inaugurated the second phase of CRM BARA. TV Narendran, MD, Tata Steel, India and SEA graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.

The up gradation of facilities in Phase II such as the reversing mill were installed to meet the full hard cold rolled (FHCR) requirement of Tata Blue Scope Ltd at CRM, Bara, which is of 0.25 MTPA capacity. In the current ramp- up of TBSL, the unutilized capacity of the reversing mill is being used to produce HRSPO. To meet the increased demand of HRSPO in automotive sector, a 0.3 MTPA hot rolled skin passing facility has been installed.

After the implementation of Phase-II expansion Project, part of the pickled coils will be input to the hot skin pass mill, which is also being installed as a part of the project. In order to cater to the input requirement of the new hot skin pass mill for hot rolled coils, the production capacity of the existing pickling line has been increased to 0.68 mtpy from the designed capacity of 0.5 mtpy. The final product from the plant after augmentation shall now be full hard cold rolled, hot rolled pickled and oiled coils and hot rolled pickled, skin passed oiled coils.

Key safety features implemented in the expansion of Phase II includes; Coil placement is allowed only if no persons are present within the dangerous area, Positioning interlocking, Process safety interlocks controlled through PLC, Hard wired emergency stop switches in control room & in the field for quick isolation / stoppage of equipment, Tail catcher at the exit side of Pickling Line against recoiler mandrel to restrict uncoiling at the end and separate pup-coil removal system for HSPM

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