(a) the details of the steel plants under Public Sector Undertakings producing stainless
steel at present, with volume of production, plant-wise and location-wise;
(b) the total volume of the production that is being exported, plant-wise;
(c) the total demand for stainless steel in the domestic market;
(d) whether the Government proposes to increase the target of production of stainless steel;and
(e) if so, the steps being taken in this regard?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF STEEL (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)
(a) At present, the Alloy Steels Plant (ASP), Durgapur (West Bengal) is the only plant of the
Steel Authority of India Limited`s (SAIL) producing stainless steel. The ASP produced 21,800 tonnes
stainless steel slabs during 2007 - 08.
The Salem Steel Plant (SSP), Salem (Tamil Nadu) of SAIL has a Rolling Mill for rolling stainless
steel slabs to produce stainless steel flat products. At present, it does not have its own
stainless steel production facility. It rolled 58788 tonnes of stainless steel products during 2007
- 08.
(b) At present no export of stainless steel is made from ASP. SSP exported 6153 tonnes stainless
steel products during 2007 - 08.
(c) The Government is maintaining the database of alloy steel which includes stainless steel.
There is no exclusive database for stainless steel. The domestic apparent consumption of alloy
steel (including stainless steel) for the last five years is given below:
Apparent consumption may be considered as analogous to demand during the period.
APPARENT CONSUMPTION OF ALLOY STEEL (`000 tonnes) Years Apparent consumption 2002-03 1780 2003-04 1950 2004-05 1988 2005-06 2248 2006-07 2455 2007-08 (Prov.) 2500 Source: JPC