India’s demand for metallurgical coke in steelmaking increased by 7.5% y-o-y to over 35 million tonnes (mnt) in CY’23 from 32.8 mnt in CY’22, and while domestic production witnessed a marginal growth imports rose by around 15% y-o-y, as per data available with BigMint. Coke demand increased on higher production of crude steel through the BF -BOF route, with hot metal production rising by 7.5% y-o-y to 86 mnt in CY’23. Demand for met coke in other areas of ferrous metallurgy such as sinter and pellet production and the ferroalloys and foundry sectors stood at around 11 mnt, data show-largely stable compared with 10 mnt in CY’22.
