Salem Steel Plant- SAIL - Stainless steel plant in Salem - Salem, India

Wow, this is a beautiful plant, where they have a steel melting shop, hot, and cold rolling mill. Got a chance to visit the plant as a part of an industrial visit organized for GCE, Salem students. The plant, land, and infrastructure is massive and measures in kms n 1000s of acres only. You need special permission to enter the premises.

On salem to tharamangalam road..one of the identity for salem

Salem Steel Plant (SSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), is a steel plant involved in the production of stainless steel. It is located along the Salem -- Bangalore National Highway 44 in the foothills of Kanjamalai in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. The plant has an installed capacity of 70,000 tonnes per annum in its cold rolling mill and 3,64,000 tonnes per annum in the hot rolling mill. It also has the country's first stainless steel blanking facility. The major facilities at the plant include *Steel Melting Shop *Cold Rolling Mill Complex *Hot Rolling Mill Complex *Stainless Steel Blanking Line SSP specializes in the production of cold rolled stainless steel in the form of coils and sheets.The raw materials are imported and also supplied by Alloy Steel Plant in Durgapur.The steel melting shop's annual capacity is 1,80,000 tonnes of slabs per annum. The hot-rolling mill and cold-rolling mill have capacities of 3,64,000 and 66,600 tonnes per annum respectively. SSP supplies steel to BHEL-Tiruchirapalli, HMT, Bharat Electronics Limited-Bangalore and Indian Telephone Industries.Stainless steel is also exported to over more than 37 countries including Spain, UK, Japan, Germany and Switzerland.Between 1994-95, around 41,500 tonnes to as many as 27 countries. The units of cold rolling mill complex was ISO 9002 certified in April 1993. The hot rolling mill complex received certification two years later. It received ISO 14001 certification, for its pollution free environment, from German RWTUV in 1999. Awards Edit SAIL Corporate Award 1994-95[citation needed] Annual Safety Awards at Visakhapatnam - Ispat Suraksha Puraskar award Ferrous Division of Indian Institute of Metals - National Sustainability Award 200 On 15 May 1972, the Government of India decided to set up a steel plant at Salem for the production of steel and strips of electrical, stainless and other special and mild steel. The construction started on 13 June 1972, after inauguration by then Minister of Steel and Mines Mohan Kumaramangalam.The cost of first phase of the project was Rs181.19 crore (US$24 million).It brought the latest technology in cold rolling to India at the time. The initial production capacity was 32,000 tones per annum (cold rolled stainless steel strips and wide sheets). Later on 26 March 1991, the second phase at a cost of Rs76.27 crore (US$10 million) was realised, increasing production capacity to 70,000 tones per annum.On 24 December 1993, a blanking line was commissioned with a capacity of 3600 tones blanks per annum. This was the first such facility to be established in India.

This is a well organised, well maintained, steel manufacturing plant, with integrated township, hospital, playground, 3 parks, swimming pool, post office, SBI bank, atm, a temple, a marriage hall, a higher secondary school, a secondary school, a guest house, cooperative store, hp gas cylinder godown and distribution, government ration shop, executive club named STAINLESS SURABHI, etc.

Awesome, it's a booming residential area of Salem city. so calm with less pollution and better connectivity.

Steel plant township is under ministry of steel a government running enterprise owned by Steel Authority of India..A nice township equipped with all most all amenities viz Hospital, Schools, Swimming Pool, Club, Playground, Gymnasium, Health park and Childens park for the employees and thier dependences

Salem Salem Ironmongery has many highlights and the clean space inside is full of beautiful buildings and animals like a peacock seeing is very beautiful . ButWhat is sad is that the privatization I came up with only gives a little bit of sadness.

Well.... it was a vast....industry which was more than i expected....it was also a cool place to work for, with a safety stuffs. It kind a feels good to live in a place were is full of opportunities and being engaged with lot of stuffs where other people won't.........salem is a gud place of Steel and mangoes and little bit of hot sun.....proud to be an salem liver....:)