 A pipe plant and special plate plant were set up during the 1970s for production of ERW pipes and steel plates for defense requirements.NSPCL, a joint venture company of NTPC Limited and SAIL, set up a captive power plant of 120 MW capacity to be self-sufficient.Rourkela Steel Plant undertook a modernization program in 1988 with an outlay of INR 4500 crores.