NINL (India) to commission its Steel Melting Shop soon 

Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited (NINL), based in Kalinganagar and jointly promoted by MMTC under the Union Commerce Ministry and Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL) is the largest producer of Pig Iron since 2004-05 and has its own captive iron ore mine and power plant to meet its requirement.

After missing its earlier deadlines, the public sector steel maker is all set to commission its Steel Melting Shop (SMS) at the Kalinganagar plant. The SMS, which was scheduled to be commissioned in September last year, was later rescheduled to December.

“Our Steel Melting Shop complex is at the advanced stage of commissioning and is expected to be commissioned by March this year, which might happen earlier also”, said Mr Sanjay Paliwal, Assistant General Manager (AGM) of the company.

In addition to one coke oven battery and a multi fuel power plant, NINL has also proposed to add a Blast Furnace (BF) of an appropriate size in its expansion plan.

The company is working on preparation of a strategic paper on the same. The said paper will also consider the commencement of civil work of coke oven plant in the financial year 2012-13.

With completion of the ongoing expansion plan at an investment of Rs 3,000 crore, NINL's total capacity will increase to 3 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and it will start producing cast Billets which are likely to add more values and returns in comparison to Pig Iron. The company is also making efforts to produce special quality Billets for better net sales realization.

In the second phase of expansion, NINL is planning to make an investment of Rs 10,000 crore to boost its capacity to 5 mtpa.