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The Vizag Steel Plant (VSP) has restarted all operations on Tuesday, 22 days after being hit by the super cyclone ‘Hudhud’ on October 12, which caused immense damage to machinery and equipment forcing a shutdown.
After estimation of damages, the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited-VSP swung into action for a revival as all production had come to a halt for the first time in its history.
After conducting trial runs earlier this week, production in all the units including rolling mills was revived on Monday. “The revival of raw material handling facilities, coke ovens, blast furnaces and steel melting shop-1 which commenced with the supply of emergency power by APTransco on October 16, was completed by October 22, said P Madhusudan, CMD-RINL.
The repairs to the roof damages have also been taken up by RINL on a war-footing and work in critical areas has already been completed.
SAIL is supplying necessary material on a priority basis and the balance work on sheeting is expected to get completed in two to three weeks’ time.
Madhusudan said that RINL could revive operations in three weeks time despite breakdown of major water supply line in the power plant leading to tripping of captive power generation and delaying the process of recovery by three days.
