Essar Steel commissioned its second unit of
Conarc Furnace with a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per annum, taking total
capacity of steel melt shop to 5 mtpa.
The Conarc furnace will be fed with inputs
from blast furnace with a capacity of 1.73 mtpa (commissioned recently), DRI
(direct reduced iron) with a capacity of 1.74 mtpa and two Corex units of 0.87
mtpa of which one is already commissioned and the second unit is scheduled to
be commissioned this month.
Barring a Corex unit, Essar Steel has
commissioned all steel making units including iron making and rolling units
that are part of 10 mtpa expansion project. The Corex unit is slated for
commissioning later this year.
With the completion of expansion project, the
Essar Steel's Hazira unit will become India's largest flat steel facility at
any single location and among the top ten in the world. The unit will also be
one of the few steel facilities which are fully integrated and produce the
entire range of flat products. The total investment in Essar's Hazira steel
complex is about Rs 30,000 crore.
The company is also currently setting up a six
million tonne taconite plant in the US and Trinity Coal that owns six mining
complexes in US that hold an estimated 200 million tonnes of coking and thermal
coal.
Source: The Business Line
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