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Servo Steel Meet 2016 Kolkata
India has become the 3rd largest producer of crude steel in 2015 and continues to be the largest producer of sponge iron in the world. World Steel Association has projected Indian steel demand to grow by 6.2% in 2015 and by 7.3% in 2016 as compared to global steel use growth of 0.5% and 1.4% respectively.
The growth of Indian Steel Industry is a reflection of the growth of the Indian Economy which grew at 7.3% in 2014-15. The World Bank has forecasted a growth of 7.5% in 2015-16, followed by a further acceleration to 7.8% in 2016-17 and 7.9% in 2017-18.
The above growth projections augur well for the future Indian Industrial Climate. This implies new industries, addition of new facilities and revamp of old units in existing industries. New machineries will be installed and there will be a spurt in initial fill lubricant requirements and top ups as they enter in the production mode. There will be new requirements of lubricants encompassing efficiency, reliability and environment friendliness.
An integrated steel plant provides the ultimate challenge to lubricants because it encompasses all the lubrication regimes, worst possible lubrication environment, complexity of processes and very high safety considerations.
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd -West Bengal State office organized the Servo Steel Meet 2016 at Kolkata with the theme:”Lubrication – A tool to reduce your plant’s operational cost” at Kolkata on 8th January 2016.
Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, GM, WBSO welcomed the participants in the presence of R Suresh, ED (LT), R&D, T S R Gopalarao, GM (ILS) HO and SR Sarkar, GM (LC), Kolkata. The representation from customers were more than 100 with distinguished presence from SAIL, JSW, Tata, Essar, RINL, JSPL, Bhushan and important project consultants and OEMs like VAS Tribology, Primetals, Danieli, PaulWurth ,Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd etc.
There were 17 presentations from customers and 5 presentations from IOC. A technical booklet covering the high performance lubricants for steel plants was also shared with customers.
