The Walking Beam Type Reheating Furnace of the Bar Mill of IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur was lighted up by Mr IC Sahu Executive Director in Charge, on Friday for initial drying and heating of refractory mass followed by billet heating.

Installed by a consortium of Bricmont of USA and MICCO of India, this furnace has a heating capacity of 160 tonnes per hour and can produce 0.90 million tonnes per annum of finished products such as rebars in straight length of sizes 8 to 40mm.

Commencement of hot trial of Bar Mill is expected within a period of two week soon after completion of initial heating of refractory mass.

The Bar Mill has been installed under separate package by a consortium Danieli & Company of Italy, Danieli India and Shriram EPC and is presently under cold trial operation.