Shri Swaminathan Chandrasekaran (55), has assumed charge as Executive Director of SAIL, Salem Steel Plant on May 2. He took over from Shri Pankaj Gautam, Executive Director, who is on transfer to SAIL, Bhilai Steel Plant as Executive Director (Works). Shri Chandrasekaran, a Mechanical Engineer from Annamalai University, began his career as a graduate engineer [...]

Merits of family-run businesses discussed “Spiritual and Social capitals are the foundation for the success of family-run businesses,” M.V. Subbiah, Chairman, National Skill Development Corporation and former Chairman of Murugappa Group said. Speaking on the topic “Family Business – Enlarging the Circle of Trust,” at a meeting organised by the Salem Chapter of Confederation of [...]

SAIL, Salem Steel Plant and the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Salem Chapter, celebrated the 48th Metallurgists’ Day on March 1, at the plant’s Bharathi Arangam auditorium. Delivering the inaugural address, Shri Pankaj Gautam, Executive Director, Salem Steel Plant pointed out that at this juncture against the backdrop of slow global recovery, the steel industry [...]

Mr. C.S. Verma, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), received the prestigious ‘Icon of the Year’ award of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) here today. Mr. R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs presented the award on the inaugural day of the 52nd National Convention of ICWAI. The award [...]

SAIL Director inaugurates new line at SSP Shri Soiles Bhattacharya, Director (Finance), Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) visited Salem Steel Plant (SSP) on December 18 and 19.  He met Executive Director, Shri Pankaj Gautam and senior officials and reviewed the plant’s performance including the post-modernisation and expansion activities, which comprise installation of steel melting [...]

A team of 30 powerloom owners from various weaving clusters in Salem and Namakkal districts such as Ammapet, Jalakandapuram, Mallur, Rasipuram and Gurusamipalayam has left for Gujarat for an industrial tour to learn about the latest technologies in textile industry. According to president, Salem District Small Scale and Tiny Industries Association, K.Mariappan, the Ministry of Textiles, [...]

‘Salem Fabrics,’ the identity tag that has been associated with hallmark of quality for traditional woven cotton fabrics, needs to go for value addition. With the industry showing buoyancy, though at present hit by yarn price hike which experts in the field feel is “a passing phase”, textile industrialists have also decided to enhance promotion [...]

Salem Steel Plant Executive Director Pankaj Goutam (right) receiving the National Sustainability Award for the year 2010 from Virbhadra Singh, Union Minister of Steel, at the 48th National Metallurgist Day celebrations in Bangalore recently. The Salem Steel Plant has won the prestigious National Sustainability Award for the year 2010 from Indian Institute of Metals. A [...]

German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that the slab caster it has supplied to Indian steelmaker Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) Tamil Nadu, India-based subsidiary Salem Steel Plant has been successfully put into operation. The single-strand X-Cast® slab caster will be sued for the production of slabs of various stainless-steel grades with thicknesses of [...]

District Industrial Centre will conduct entrepreneur camps at Mecheri (November 9), Salem (November 11), Talavasal (November 16), Taramangalam (November 18), Edapadi (November 23) and Veerapandi (November 25). A press release says that those interested can take part in the camps which would help unemployed educated youth to start self employment schemes. Persons living in respective [...]