KIOCL has received environmental clearance from the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for setting up a non-recovery coke oven plant at Mangalore in Karnataka. The new plant is to be set up near its own blast furnace plant.
The new coke oven will coexist with a captive power plant (10 MW) and a ductile iron spun pipe plant (0.2 MTPA). The plant’s annual production will be around 0.18 MnT. In a non-recovery plant no by-products are extracted during the heating of metallurgical coal.
The newly accorded clearance is given as per the provision of environmental impact assessment notification 2006. However, the clearance has been given in terms of some specific conditions as per the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change letter given to KIOCL.
KIOCL, formerly Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited, was established in 1976 under the aegis of the Ministry of Steel for mining and beneficiation of low-grade iron ore at Kudremukh in Karnataka. It has played a pioneering role for over four decades in Iron ore beneficiation and iron oxide pelletisation.
KIOCL has a 3.5 MTPA iron oxide pellet plant and a blast furnace unit to convert 2.16 lakh tonnes of pig iron annually at its Mangalore plant.
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