It also achieved the best ever June dispatches of Rails to the Indian Railways in June’20. Incidentally, for the first time in the country, SAIL flagged off the first rake of R-260 grade Vanadium alloyed high strength 260 meter rails to the Indian Railways, capable of delivering higher speed and bearing higher axle load. In addition, SAIL has also sold 42 thousand tonne of Pig Iron during June’2020.
Commenting on the performance, Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan said: “Record June sales and exports by SAIL is indicative of the buoyancy and sharp recovery our economy is witnessing."
SAIL chairman, Anil Kumar Chaudhary said: “The Nation has entered into Unlock 2 phase and gradually the pace of industrial activities has started picking up. The market is looking up along with the consumption and SAIL is geared up to leverage all its potential to domestic demand."
At the same time, avenues in export market have also opened up and SAIL is relentlessly working to meet the demand generating from the new vistas, he added.
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