Author: Rounak Gairarey
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Conversion spread for billet slips below break-even cost
Operating margin for induction furnaces to produce billet by using sponge iron as an input has fallen in central and east India due to seasonally sluggish downstream demand of billet and rising cost of sponge iron. The margin for converting sponge P-DRI to billet, also called conversion spread, has fallen to below INR 10,000/t in…