BSRM

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Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd.
Company type Public
DSE:  BSRMSTEEL
CSE:  BSRMSTEEL
IndustrySteel engineering
Genre Steel
Iron
Founded1952;72 years ago (1952)
HeadquartersSadarghat Road,
Chittagong
,
Bangladesh
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Alihussain Akberali (Chairman)

Aameir Alihussain (Managing Director)

Zohair Taherali (Director)
Products Steel, long steel products, structural steel, wire products, steel casing pipes, household goods
Production output
1.6 million MT (2019)
RevenueIncrease2.svg৳10000 crore (US$840 million) (2021)
Total assets Increase2.svgTk 13,466 Crore
(US$1.6 billion) (2018)
Subsidiaries BSRM (Hong Kong)

The Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd., commonly known as BSRM, is a Bangladeshi steel manufacturing company based in Chittagong. It is the largest construction steel manufacturer company in Bangladesh. [1] [2]

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History

In 1952, five businessman named Akberali Africawala, Alibhai Africawala, Taherali Africawala, Abdul Hussain Africawala, and Rajabali Africawala, set up the first BSRM steel re-rolling mill of the then East Bengal in Nasirabad, Chittagong. It started its journey with four manual rolling mills. [3] [4] In 1970 the manual rolling mills were replaced with the state-of-the-art Italian built rolling mill.

In 1996, the company installed and commissioned their billet casting plant under the name "Meghna Engineering Works Limited".

In July 2002, BSRM Group incorporated a new company, BSRM Steels Ltd, to fund and operate a turnkey re-rolling mill from Italian supplier Danieli. [5] Construction of the plant began in 2005 [6] on 11 acres just off the Dhaka-Chittaong Highway at Latifpur in Fouzderhat, Chittagong. It was completed at a cost of 3.7 billion Bangladeshi taka (equivalent to $54 million in 2008). The facility began commercial operation in April 2008 with an annual production capacity of 375,000 metric tons. [7] On 18 January 2009, BSRM Steels Ltd was listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange. [8] As of 2019, holding company BSRM Ltd retained about 45% of the shares in BSRM Steels Ltd. [9]

BSRM has a subsidiary in Hong Kong named BSRM (Hong Kong) Limited. [10]

Controversy

In May 2019, Bangladesh National Board of Revenue (NBR) alleged that the company has drawn over USD 13 million from the government falsely claiming locally sold steel products as export goods which violates the duty drawbacks facilities that is only meant for material export. [11]

In an investigation led by a team from the VAT intelligence unit of the NBR, it was found that two institutions of BSRM dodged VAT amounting to BDT 6.62 crore from July 2016 to June 2019. BSRM later paid the VAT, including interest, to the NBR in December 2021. [12]

Between 2017 and 2018, BSRM was fined ৳5.2 millions by Department of Environment for destroying 1,05,000 square feet of hills in Mirsarai to make way for a power plant named Chittagong Power Company Limited. [13]

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  2. ↑ "BSRM comes out of red in Jan-Mar, riding on high demand, increased product prices". The Financial Express. September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
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