There was great excitement on the hot strip rolling line at India’s Jindal Steel Odisha Ltd when the door of a new reheating furnace was opened up.

Onlookers witnessed the precise discharge of a piece of hot slab from Furnace 1’s discharging roller table. It signified India’s first smooth start up for a furnace of this kind.

CISDI is the package supplier for JSOL’s three reheating furnaces. They are designed to hit world-class technical and economic indicators and feature a host of patented tech developments for green, low-carbon combustion, the automatic measurement and control of slab temperature and cameras which give a much wider field of view, smart heating, integrated control and combined precast blocks.

Following this successful initial operation, the head of the JSOL HSM, Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, applauded CISDI’s workmanship. “Congratulations! You were absolutely the right choice for us,” he commented.

CISDI’s achievement list for advanced walking-beam-type slab reheating furnaces is impressive; over 20 have been exported to Brazil, Malaysia, Vietnam and India.

CISDI has been supplying Vietnam with tech and equipment for 10 new furnaces over the last decade, including four at Formosa Ha Tinh Steel which are running as a star demo of the largest, state-of-the-art export to an EPC mode.

Slab reheating furnace 1, supplied by CISDI to JSOL’s 1,780mm HSM in India

In action! The first hot slab is discharged from JSOL’s RHF 1

Teams from CISDI and JSOL celebrate RHF1’s start-up