Industries in Chhattisgarh

The notable Chhattisgarh Industries that provide major impetus to the growing economy of the state consist of steel, aluminium, cement, thermal power, mining and various specialized industrial areas. Rich with reserves of iron ore and mineral deposits, Chhattisgarh's Korba National Thermal Power Corporation is one of the remarkable achievement of the place. Steel industry is one of the biggest zone of Chhattisgarh which has a reputation of producing high quality equipments and products that have a high export value. Bhilai Steel Plant with a capacity of 3.6 million tonnes per year, is regarded as a significant growth indicator of the state. There are more than 100 steel rolling mills, sponge iron plants and ferro-alloy units in Chhattisgarh all of which are able to provide world-class output . Aluminium industry of Chhattisgarh comprises of Bharat Aluminum Company limited which has a capacity of around ten million tonne each year. From aluminium extrusions to sheet rolling, the aluminium sector of Chhattisgarh is equipped with all types intricate functionalities. Cement industry is yet another significant sector of Chhattisgarh. The cement companies of the state are located in every part of the state. Century cement factory, ACC cement factory, Larsen and Toubro, raymond cement factory, ambuja cement factory, grasim cement factory and Lafarge are some of the popular units that are operating in the state of Chhattisgarh. Korba Thermal Power Plant, Balco Captive Power Plant, Hasdeo Thermal Power station and National thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Korba comes under the thermal industry of Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation is counted as an important element of the Mining industry of the state. Facilitating exploration of the rich deposits of limestones, bauxite, corundum and dolomite, the corporation aims at increasing the scope of mining activities in the state. Chhattisgarh industrial areas houses a number of multifarious units each of which specializes in a specific commercial resource. From engineering equipments to steel plants, the industrial area of Chhattisgarh presents hordes of profitable venture companies. Chhattisgarh Industries in a way symbolizes the prosperous stage of its economy. some industies in chhattisgarh

0. Dalli Rajhara Mining township

1.Chhattisgarh aluminium Sector

2. National Thermal Power Centre Korba

3. Bhilai Steel Plant

4. SAIL COS

5. IISCO STEEL PLANT

6. Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO)

7. DURGAPUR STEEL PLANT

Dalli Rajhara Mining township

Rajhara Mine Area

Dalli-Rajhara is the twin mine and part of the Rajhara group of mines. These are captive iron ore mines for Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) - a SAIL enterprise. Iron ores mined from the area are of the hematite and magnetite variety. The other mines in the neighbourhood produce dolomite, lime and other raw materials which go into steel production.
Dalli-Rajhara is about 83 km south of Durg and comes under the south-eastern section of the Indian Railways. While both Dalli and Rajhara have mines, the residential area is predominantly in Rajhara. Dalli-Rajhara is a self-sufficient township with BSP having set up hospitals and a considerable number of educational institutes.
Dalli-Rajhara rose to prominence as a result of the labour rights movement in the 1970s.
The mines are open cast mines and the poignant view as one enters the township at dusk is that of thousands of glittering lights on the hills.

Chhattisgarh aluminium Sector

Chhattisgarh Aluminum sector boasts of several core units and extrusion plants that are famous for their world-class quality. Bharat Aluminum Company Limited ranks high on the horizon of Chhattisgarh industries. Producing million tonnes of sheets and foils, the other aluminum units of the state aptly encourages the overall development of the economy. Bharat Aluminum Company Limited in the Korba district is one of the proud manifestation of the industrial advancement of Chhattisgarh. Catering to the needs of a diversified range of manufacturing sectors of the state, the company also acts a vital job providing sector. Engaging a major portion of the local population, the company enables the state to increase the volume of income generation. Reserves of bauxite ore are spread across the length and breadth of Chhattisgarh. In fact such is the abundance of bauxite deposits in the various districts of the state that even after ample usage, a portion is transferred to other states of India for different industrial zones. The Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation provides all possible assistance to the aluminum industries of the state so that more productive results could be achieved within a short span of time. Providing the basic framework for varied exploration works, the corporation also sees to the fact that not a single aluminum company of the state lags behind due to any financial or infrastructural constraint. As significant drivers of economic progress, Chhattisgarh Aluminum industries performs extremely well on both the state and national levels

National Thermal Power Centre Korba

The state of Chhattisgarh has gained a new industrial identity after the establishment of National Thermal Power Centre Korba. The capacity of this highly powerful center of Chhattisgarh is around 2100 MW and there are six units which are engaged in generation of electricity for the entire state.

Ranked as the fifth largest power units, National Thermal Power Center established its first two units in the year 1983, while the third unit came into existence in 1984. The three subsequent units came up in 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively. Engaging a total of 2800 workforce, this power center of the state involved a whooping investment of rs. 1625 crore.

The day-to-day operations of the National Thermal Power Center at Korba requires an unhindered supply of water. In order to meet this demand, the nearby Right Bank Canal is utilized which is a part of the Hasdeo Barrage of Chhattisgarh.

Ranked among the biggest power centers of Asia, NTPC Korba consumes 40, 000 MT coal everyday to generate sufficient electricity. The major clients of this center, apart from Chhattisgarh, include Daman, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Supplying electricity to each and every household and commercial complex of the state, National Thermal Power Center in Korba has set a remarkable milestone in the industrial areas of Chhattisgarh.

Situated at a distance of about 12 km from the city of Korba, National Thermal Power Center is a manifestation of self-sufficient electricity sector that has transformed the state into bright hub of possibilities.

Bhilai Steel Plant

Seven - time winner of Prime Minister’s Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant in the country, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is India’s sole producer of rails and heavy steel plates and major producer of structural. The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 metres. With an annual production capacity of 3.153 MT of saleable steel, the plant also specializes in other products such as wire rods and merchant products. Since BSP is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System Standard, all saleable products of Bhilai Steel Plant come under the ISO umbrella. At Bhilai IS0:14001 has been awarded for Environment Management System in the Plant, Township and Dalli Mines and it is the only steel plant to get certification in all these areas. The Plant is accredited with SA: 8000 certification for social accountability and the OHSAS-18001 certification for Occupational health and safety. These internationally recognised certifications adds value to Bhilai’s products and helps create a place among the best organisations in the steel industry.PRODUCT-MIXTONNES/ANNUMSemis5,53,000Rail & Heavy Structural7,50,000Merchant Products(Angles, Channels, Round & TMT bars)5,00,000Wire Rods (TMT, Plain & Ribbed)4,00,000Plates (up to 3600 mm wide)9,50,000Total Saleable steel31,53,000Location : Forty kms west of Raipur, the capital city of Chhattisgarh, along the Howrah-Mumbai railway line and the Great-Eastern highway, stands Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP). Contact Us :Bhilai Steel Plant= Mr. S P S JaggiDGM (PR).

SAIL COS

Alloy Steels PlantThe pioneer in the production of alloy and special steels. Alloy Steels Plant (ASP), Durgapur was commissioned with an initial capacity of 1,00,000 tonnes of ingot steel and 60,000 tonnes of saleable steel. Through two phases of expansion and modernization, the capacity has been revised to 2.46 lakh tonnes of liquid steel and 1.78 lakh tonnes of saleable steel.Recipient of ISO-9001 (2000) certification for the entire plant, ASP is equipped with state-of-the-art technology for producing world-class quality alloy and special steels. The plant has one slab-cum-twin bloom continuous casting machine, the only one of its kind in India. It is specially designed for casting special steels like Austenitic and Ferritic stainless steel and a variety of non-stainless steels including bulletproof steel. The continuous casting machine is equipped with a state-of-art Electro-Magnetic Stirrer in its mould for casting Blooms.ASP has the capacity to produce Slabs, Blooms, Bars, Plates and Forged items of over 400 grades in a wide range of sizes. It also produces value added items like Cold Rolling Mill rolls, Concast rollers, crane wheels, springs, hammers, grate bars, hot saw blade, shear blade, bright bar, stainless steel liner plate, etc. ASP is also supplying import substitution item components to many customers through established conversion agents.LocationAlloy Steels Plant has a unit-based marketing set-up with Head Quarters at Durgapur and regional offices at Kolkata, Murnbai, New Delhi and Chennai. It also has field offices in different places throughout the country, exclusively marketing the products of ASP. The Field Executives work in all the important centres in the country to ensure prompt and effective customer service and speedy redressal of complaints, if any.Contact UsAlloy Steels Plant, SAIL, Durgapur, West Bengal 713208, India.Phone : +91-343-2545354/2546768Fax: +91343-2546438(ED Secretariat)2545987 (Mktg. HQ)2545058 (Works)2545301 (MMD) Regional Offices of ASP MarketingEastern Region : Regional Manager, ASP Mktg., Jeevan Sudha Building, 8th & 9th floor, 42C, J.N.Road, Kolkata - 700071 Phone : +91-33-22882386,22882419FAX : +91-33-Western Region : Regional Manager, ASP Mktg., Room No. 221, Swastik Chambers, Sion Trombay Road, Chembur, Mumbai - 400071Phone : +91-22-25299243 Fax : +91-22-25299757Email Northern Region : Regional Manager, ASP Marketing, Jeevan Deepp Building,10 Parliament Street, New Delhi - 110001Phone: +91-11-23341829/23368701 FAX : +91-11-23744093Email :Southern Region : Regional Manager, ASP Marketig, Kannamai Building, 611, Anna Salai, Chennai - 600006 Phone: +91-44-28295575/28294579 FAX : +91-44-28295575

IISCO STEEL PLANT

IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), an integrated steel plant in Burnpur, has the capacity to produce 4.26 lakh tonnes of saleable steel and 2.54 lakh tonnes of pig iron annually. ISP, the erstwhile Indian Iron & Steel Company (IISCO), which was a 100% subsidiary of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has been amalgamated with the parent company with effect from 16 February 2006.ISP produces a large number of steel structurals and special sections as well as pig iron. the plant pioneered the production of centre –sill Z-section used in the fabrication of wagon and Z-type sheet piling section used in construction of barrages, bridge foundations and other projects and colliery arch section used for roof support in collieries. The plant has also developed ‘slit rolling’ for small diameter rounds (10 mm and 12 TMT), which are in high demand in the domestic market.The plant is set to undego modernisation-cum-capacity expansion though which its hot metal production capacity will be raised to 2.5 MT by 2011-12.ISP is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 QMS for its Heavy Structural Mill and Merchant & Rod Mill. It has also been awarded ISO 14001:2004 EMS for its entire Rolling Mill Complex. Location ISP is situated at Burnpur near Asansol in the Burdwan district of West Bengal.HistoryThe origin of ISP can be traced to 1874 when James Erskine founded the Bengal Iron Works and set up a plant at Kulti (in West Bengal) to produce pig iron. In 1918, the erstwhile IISCO, promoted by Burn and Company, came into being after changing hands several times. The manufacture of steel at Burnpur started in 1939. By the middle of the 1960s, the plant, under the chairmanship of industrialist Sir Biren Mookerjee, was producing one million tonne a year. On July 4, 1972, the company was taken over by the Government of India. In March 1979, it was made a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAIL. The erstwhile IISCO was once quoted on the London Stock Exchange, and had the pride of place on the Calcutta Stock Exchange in the early 1960s. Facilities at BurnpurCoke OvenTwo coke oven batteries each of height 4.5 m and capacity 18.6 t of dry coalBlast FurnaceTwo blast furnaces each of useful volume 1170 cu mSteel Melting Shop1 Twin Hearth Furnace of 2×110 t capacity Rolling Mills32 Soaking Pits; Blooming Mill capacity 0.9 Mtpa Billet Mill capacity 0.8 Mtpa Heavy Structural Mill capacity 0.25 Mtpa Light Structural Mill capacity 0.12 Mtpa Merchant & Rod Mill capacity 0.15 Mtpa Facilities Pollution ControlAll environmental parameters like SPM, SOX, NOX, water testing are regularly undertaken to meet the Pollution Control Board norms. The department is equipped with latest testing facilities.Computer ServicesComputerized Integrated Maintenance and Materials Management System (IMMMS) based on CA-OpenIngres RDBMS under HP-UX.A Sun Solaris network running Oracle RDBMS in Finance department.Email and internet facilities.EducationISP runs 3 Higher Secondary, 1 Secondary and 4 Primary schools providing subsidised education to more than 7000 students. Besides, 1 co-educational English medium CBSE school with 2000+ students is supported by the company.Health CareA 500-bedded Central Hospital with facilities like modern OT, ICU, ICCU, Dialysis unit, Dental, isolation ward, blood bank, physiotherapy. Besides, there are Clinics in all townships and Occupational Health Centre in the plants.Contact UsIISCO Steel Plant Mr. Bhaskar Kumar,Chief of CommunicationsPR Department,7, The Ridge, Burnpur.Tel : 91 - 0341 - 2240343Fax : 91 - 0341 – 2241506

Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO)

is a public sector undertaking (PSU) established in the year 1965. The organization enjoys the recognition of being the first public sector enterprise of India. It started the production of aluminium in the year 1975. Bharat Aluminium Co. Ltd. (BALCO) is partly integrated Aluminium Company, which has its own Refineries, Captive Bauxite Mines, Smelters and Captive Power Plants. The captive power plant with the capacity of 270 MW was built to provide power supply to the unit. BALCO is involved in the processes of the four major activities like Refining, Mining, Fabrication, and Smelting. BALCO has the credit of being the first Aluminium Industry in India to produce alloy rods. These alloy rods are very important, as they are a feedstock for all Aluminium Alloy Conductors, required for the lines used in power transmission. Bharat Aluminium Company Limited was a public sector organization and was owned 100% by Government of India, till the year 2001. But in 2001, the Government of India disinvested 51% of the equity of the company and management to the Sterlite Industries Limited. Within 41 years of its establishment Bharat Aluminium Company Limited has expanded its production capacity of aluminium to 200,000 tonnes annually and the smelting capacity to 50,000 tonnes per annum. The growth of the company can also be assessed from its expansion plans in fabrication facilities by installing integrated hot and cold rolling mills, three Properzi Rod Mills, captive power plant with the capacity of 810 MW and three pig casting machines.

DURGAPUR STEEL PLANT

Set up in the late 50's with an initial annual capacity of one million tonnes of crude steel per year, the capacity of Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) was later expanded to 1.6 million tonnes in the 70's. A massive modernisation programme was undertaken in the plant in early 90's, which, while bringing numerous technological developments in the plant, enhanced the capacity of the plant to 2.088 million tonnes of hot metal,1.8 million tonnes crude steel and 1.586 million tonnes saleable steel. The entire plant is covered under ISO 9001: 2000 quality management system.The modernized DSP now has state-of –the-art technology for quality steel making. The modernized units have brought about improved productivity, substantial improvement in energy conservation and better quality products. DSP’s Steel Making complex and the entire mills zone, comprising its Blooming & Billet Mill, Merchant Mill, Skelp Mill, Section Mill and Wheel & Axle Plant, are covered under ISO: 9002 quality assurance certification.With the successful commissioning of the modernized units, DSP is all set to produce 2.088 million tones of hot metal, 1.8 million tones of crude steel and 1.586 million tones of saleable steel annually.PRODUCT-MIXTONNES/ANNUMMerchant Products2,80,000Structural2,07,000Skelp1,80,000Wheels & Axles58,000Semis8,61,000Total Saleable steel15,86,000LocationSituated at a distance of 158 km from Calcutta, its geographical location is defined as 230 27' North and 880 29' East. It is situated on the banks of the Damodar river. The Grand Trunk Road and the main Calcutta-Delhi railway line pass through Durgapur. Environment controlDurgapur Steel Plant has always made relentless efforts to maintaining a healthy and clean environment. The units in DSP are provided with necessary pollution control facilities and the liquid effluents and chimney emissions from the plant are well within norms. DSP has undertaken massive afforestation to maintain clean environment. Some 3,266 acres of land have been covered with 14 lakh plantations. In order to develop healthy awareness about the environment amongst the younger generation, eco-clubs have been formed in DSP schools. Centre for Human Resource DevelopmentDSP has always attached maximum importance on proper training and development of its employees. Its Centre for Human Resource Development has all modern facilities including the state-of-the-art Electrical and Electronics laboratory, Hydraulics and Pneumatics laboratory and workshop for effective training and development of its employees. CommunicationThe Public Relations Department publishes monthly house journals in English, Bengali and Hindi for extensive information of company affairs to the employees. DSP also has an in-house TV studio (DSTV) along with all modern facilities, which telecast news and a gamut of other programs covering various aspects of plant and township activities. Durgapur – The Happening CityDurgapur, which is on the main Kolkata – New Delhi line, is fast turning into the most happening city in the region. From a sleepy settlement, the town today boasts of a variety of educational institutions, posh shopping malls, complexes with eateries and a multiplex, etc. With the change in the mindset of the people has come a change in the lifestyle also. Quality consciousness has steeped in, accompanied with quality brands making their presence felt in the market. Durgapur is fast turning into the central location for the entire region – with the entry of big business houses and entrepreneurs, the city is all set to undergo a change in its own lifestyle and in the outlook of its residents. Contact Us :Durgapur Steel PlantBR KanungoAGM (PR).