Rourkela: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has exported more than 34000 tonnes of plates to Asian and European countries in the months of July, August and September 2020.

Another 1000 tonnes are ready for export in the current month. Besides the Steel Plant has also bagged another order for exporting 10,000 tonnes plates to the European market.

The plates in mild and high tensile grades have been made in the New Plate Mill of RSP. A major chunk of these orders were for CE marked plates.

It is worth mentioning here that the 4.3 metre wide New Plate Mill of RSP has got approval of DNV-GL (Det Norske Veritas-Bermanischer Lloyd) Business Assurance to produce CE Mark Plates for European market and has been exporting its products to different countries.

The state-of-art Mill produces wide range of plates with close tolerances to meet stringent international standards that find  applications in Boiler and Pressure Vessels, their support structures, earth moving equipment, wagon building, railway projects, bridges and highways, nuclear power plants, urban infrastructure projects .