India: New Re-bar Rolling Mills to add in Present Capacity in Raipur

In Jan 2014, new TMT (Re-bar) Re-rolling mills are going to begin their operation in Raipur (Central India).

Central India, which has premium TMT (Re-bar) brands such as Goel, Kamdhenu, GK also including 20-22 other brands with total production capacity of approx 3 MnT pa, is about to add new TMT brands in its capital Raipur.

SteelMint learned that there are 4 new TMT units which will start in January by existing Steel producers of Raipur.

• One of them is Hira Group, also well known as Godawari Power and Ispat for its Pellet manufacturing. The group is starting its unit for TMT with production capacity of approx 7,500-10,000 MT per month in Raipur.
• Raipur based Vandanaa Energy & Steels has also planned to produce approx 15,000 MT TMT per month.
• Gravity ferrous will manufacture approx 9,000 MT “Swadeshi500” TMT per month in Raipur.
• Other rolling mill is Raipur alloys & Steels, will produce approx 7,500-8,000 MT TMT in a month.

TMT production has already increased by 15-20% in the installed capacity of approx 29.3 MnT pa on improved Finish Long buying and it seems that new plant will increase the production further in Central India.

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