First Export rake of SAE 1008 Wire Rod Coils flagged off to Nepal

Central Chronicle News
Bhilai, Jun 09: SAIL- Bhilai Steel Plant’s Wire Rod Mill (WRM) has traditionally been rolling Plain wire rods & TMT coils from the SMS1-BBM route. After the closure of SMS1- BBM route, this is the first time that Plain Wire rods of Quality SAE 1008 has been rolled in WRM from cast billets produced in the modern Steel Melting Shop 3, i.e. through the Continuous Casting (CCS) route.
A full rake comprising of 43 Wagons with 2700 Tonnes of this SAE 1008 grade wire rods produced in WRM was dispatched to Nepal today on Wednesday, June 09, 2021. The rake was flagged off by Anjani Kumar, Executive Director (Works) in the presence of senior officers of the Plant and members of the Wire Rod Mill Collective.
One more unique feature of the coils is that each and every coil is labelled with QR code having information like – Heat Number, Coil Number, Quality, Section, Date and Shift of rolling. All these information are unique to each coil. With this labelling WRM has been able to fulfil requirement of SAIL’s Marketing Wing, CMO for proper labelling and marking of coils. This initiative of labelling is the first step to the Mill’s Coil Yard Management System Project.
The SAE 1008 wire rods shall be used by the Wire Drawing Units for making GI wires. Half of the material shall be galvanized for further use. The wire drawn shall be used for making of Gabion box that are used for arresting landslides in hilly terrain.