Report: Pakistan Steel Production Cycle Comes to a Halt
09/17/2013 - The production cycle at the Pakistan Steel Mills — the country’s largest industrial complex — appears to have come to a halt, mainly because of non-availability of raw material and severe financial crunch, according to Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
According to a PSM executive, two major production units of coke oven byproduct plant (COBP) and blast furnace are facing acute raw material shortage and second battery has been shifted to heat cycle due to shortage of coal feedstock.
Non-availability of coke to charge the blast furnace will adversely affect productivity of hot metal required to feed the steel-making unit which caters to the rolling mills to make value-added products. “This is going to further damage the condition of batteries and their production parameters…”
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