# SAIL inaugurates Universal Rail Mill at Bhilai Steel Plant, boosting rail capacity to 2.0 MTPA

SAIL inaugurated a new Universal Rail Mill at its Bhilai Steel Plant on January 23, 2017, established at a cost of about INR 12 billion. The mill can produce the world's longest single rails of 130 meters, and increases the plant's total rail production capacity to 2.0 million tonnes per annum.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-01-23
- Where: Bhilai, India
- Value: $177.0M (12.0B INR)
- Starts operating: 23 Jan 2017
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 2.0 MTPA of rails
- Products: rails, long rails up to 130 meters
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Steel Authority of India Limited](https://endata.com/companies/11081.md)

## Sources

- [realtynmore.com](https://realtynmore.com/steel-minister-inaugurates-state-of-the-art-universal-rail-mill-at-sail-bhilai-flags-off-first-rake/), 2017-01-24: "Hon’ble Union Steel Minister, Shri Birender Singh inaugurated the new Universal Rail Mill at Steel Authority of India Ltd.’s (SAIL) Bhilai Steel Plant today and flagged off the first rake from the new mill."

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