Ferritic and martensitic stainless steel are annealed/softened at bell annealing

furnaces and austenitic stainless steel is annealed/softened and descaled in

continuous annealing and pickling lines using Ruthner neutral electrolytic pickling
process and mixed acid pickling for superior surface finish. The coils are rolled in
20-high computerized Sendzimer mills to required dimensional tolerances.  A 2-high
skin pass mill with elongation control and constant hydraulic roll force system
ensures a product of bright finish and high flatness.  A shearing line with precision
roller levelers, electronic flying shear and vacuum piler facilitates defect-free piling
of the leveled cut sheets.  Coils of narrow width and smaller weight are produced by
a precision slitting line equipped with latest features like in feed car, grip feed
device, tension pad and interchangeable slitters.

The shearing and slitting lines have online continuous marking system to
make the products customer-friendly.  Salem Steel Plant's cold rolling mill complex
also includes a resquaring shear, a recoiling line, a packing line for slit products and
wider coils.

In addition to the common No1, 2D and 2B finishes, a wide range of finishes

including No.3, No.4, No.8 (mirror) and special finishes like Moon Rock,
Chequered, Honeykom, Macromatt, Aqualine, Frondz, Mystique, Linen, and
Fabrique finishes are also produced as per requirement.

EXPANSION PLAN:

Expansion and modernisation of Salem Steel Plant is presently on. The plan
envisages installation of Steel Melting and Continuous Casting facilities to
produce 1,80,000 tonnes of slabs along with, expansion of Cold Rolling Mill
complex, enhancing the capacity of Cold Rolled Stainless Steel Products from
65,000 TPA to 1,46,000 TPA and an additional Roll Grinding Machine for Hot
Rolling Mill for increasing production to3,64,000 TPA.

Steelmaking is the process for producing steel from iron and ferrous scrap. In

steelmaking, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur and excess
carbon are removed from the raw iron, and alloying elements such
as manganese, nickel, chromium and vanadium are added to produce different grades
of steel. Limiting dissolved gases such as nitrogen and oxygen, and entrained
impurities (termed "inclusions") in the steel is also important to ensure the quality of
the products cast from the liquid steel. There are two major processes for making
steel, namely basic oxygen steelmaking which has liquid pig-iron from the blast
furnace and scrap steel as the main feed materials, and electric arc furnace (EAF)
steelmaking which uses scrap steel or direct reduced iron (DRI) as the main feed
materials. Oxygen steelmaking is fuelled predominantly by the exothermic nature of
the reactions inside the vessel where as in EAF steelmaking, electrical energy is used
to melt the solid scrap and/or DRI materials. In recent times, EAF steelmaking
technology has evolved closer to oxygen steelmaking as more chemical energy is
introduced into the process.