Bhubaneswar: India’s top stainless steel maker Jindal Stainless ltd.( JSL) is working on a plan to modify and expand its existing 1.6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) stainless steel plant at Kalinganagar by adding one 1x600m3 blast furnace and one 1×110 m2 sinter plant at Kalinganagar, Odisha. Union ministry of Environment and forests in last June has issued Terms of reference ( TOR) on the basis of the company’s application for Environmental Clearance last February. The compnay has proposed to invest INR 500 crore for the said expansion cum modification project.
Currently, the stainless steel complex has 1 X 0.425 MTPA Coke Plant; Steel Melt Shop (2 X 100 T,100/50 MVA Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), Hot Strip Mill (1 X 300 TPH Reheating Furnace, 1.6 MTPA HSM, 1 X 100,000 TPY Hot rolled plate facility); Cold Rolling Mill Complex (1 X 8,25,000 TPY DRAP, 1 X 4,50,000 TPY WRAP); Ferro- Alloy plant (2 X 33 TPH Cr Briquette Plant, , 2 X 60 MVA + 3 X 27.6 MVA for producing Ferro Alloys); Captive Power Plant (2 X 125 MW Coal based thermal power plant at Kalinganagar.
The entire 1.6 MTPA stainless steel project had been granted Environmental clearance on 1st November 2007 that includes the blast furnace and sinter plant. But due to the company’s certain strategic planning and production plant, the two units has not been implemented. Now, as the company is planning to build the BF and sinter plant, it has to get the EC a fresh.
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