Centre for Engineering & Technology

Center for Engineering & Technology (CET), an ISO: 9001 certified organization, is the design, engineering & consultancy unit of SAIL. It has its Head Office at Ranchi, Sub Centres at Bhilai, Durgapur, Rourkela, Bokaro, Burnpur & Bhadravati, Unit Offices at Bangalore, New Delhi for formulation of Interplant Standards for Steel Industry. As a solution provider for all project needs, CET had been rendering complete range of services not only to the Steel Plants under SAIL but also to various clients other than SAIL – both within and outside the country. Some of the important clients other than SAIL include EGITALEC (Egypt), Ashok Steel (Nepal), Chittagong Steel Mills (Bangladesh), Birla Copper, Mukand Ltd., Jindal Vijayanagar Steels Ltd., National Iron & Steel Co., Hindustan Zinc Ltd., National Mineral Development Corporation and Romelt- SAIL (India) Ltd., CET is also the nodal agency for acquisition and lateral transfer of technologies within SAIL plants.

The range of services includes conceptualization, project evaluation & appraisal, project consultancy, design & engineering and project management in the areas of iron and steel making. Apart from this, CET has been providing its services in the related areas like mine planning and development, infrastructure development, industrial piping, industrial warehousing, material handling system, industrial pollution control and environment management systems, water supply and sanitation, town planning, power projects, etc.

CET represents a reservoir of technical & managerial expertise inherited over four decades of Indian Steel Industry. It has kept pace with changing times and made continuous efforts for updating skills of engineers through planned HRD programmes, collaborative arrangements with academia and other professional organization of repute and acquiring up-to-date hardware’s & software’s for engineering work. All of these are blended with a concern for client’s profitability to ensure that the clients get the most cost effective solution, tailor- made for their requirement.

Organisation Structure

CET is a unit of SAIL. The chief executive of CET - Executive Director - reports to Director (Projects) of SAIL. Respective Additional Directors head the three main functional divisions of CET viz. Engineering, Technology and Projects. The branch offices are headed by an Additional Director stationed at the location or report to an Additional Director at Head Office.

The broad functional relationship is pictorially presented below