Steel Minister visits RINL pavilion

Visakhapatnam: Union Minister of Steel Chaudhary Birender Singh inaugurated a three-day ‘India Steel 2017’, the International Exhibition and Conference at Mumbai Exhibition Centre, Mumbai on Wednesday.RINL has put up an exhibition stall highlighting various products and technology along with the steel majors in the country.The Minister visited RINL pavilion and appreciated its participation in the exhibition.

P Madhusudan, CMD, RINL, welcomed the Minister who evinced a keen interest in knowing the finished products rolled out by RINL and the technology incorporated in the plant.Later, the CMD addressed a large number of delegates who attended from the country and abroad. He said that technology in future would be a ‘Key differentiator’ and it is time for the Indian Steel Companies to transform themselves. He said that if they benchmark India’s position on the steel demand curve, the steel industry can easily aspire to reach 300 million tonnes by 2030.

He stressed the need for collective efforts both from the industry as well as the policy makers.He said that the enabling parameters would be technology augmentation and rapid expansion of production capacity, raw material securitisation a