SMS group inaugurated its new manufacturing and service workshop at Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India. The new manufacturing and service workshop, built with an investment of approximately EUR 31M and covering an area of 21,000m2, is one of four locations operated by SMS India. The new manufacturing facility will focus on the supply of steelworks equipment and services tailored to the growth market India. The new manufacturing workshop, equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, is strategically located centrally to the customers of SMS, making it possible to fulfil individual customer requests locally and in real time. Moreover, it will also be possible to supply customers outside India with components made at the Bhubaneswar workshop via the marine port of Paradip, just 130km away.
The steelworks components manufactured at Bhubaneswar will be specifically aligned to the requirements of the Indian steel market. The range of equipment will include electric arc furnaces, secondary-metallurgy plants like ladle furnaces and RH plants, and BOF plants, including cooling stacks for gas cleaning systems. For continuous casting plants, ladle turrets, tundishes, tundish cars and roller tables will be supplied. All the products will be manufactured, assembled and tested in Bhubaneswar.
