Essar Steel Crude Steel Production Grew by 60% in April 2011

OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2011. Essar Steel, operating from India’s largest, single location production facility at Hazira in Gujarat, recorded over 60 per cent growth in crude steel output during the month of April 2011 compared to same month a year ago.

The breakup of monthly production is as follows:

Essar Steel is the second largest flat steel producer in the private sector in India and accounts for 20% of total flat steel production capacity in the country. Essar is close to completing its expansion of steel making capacity to 10 MTPA. As part of this expansion, Essar Steel has already commissioned two iron making units – a blast furnace with a capacity of 1.73 million tonnes and a DRI unit of 1.74 million tonnes, a conarc furnace of 2.5 million tonnes, a continuous caster of 1. 45 million tonnes and a CSP mill of 3.5 MTPA. On completion of the expansion, Essar Steel will be the largest flat steel producer in a single location in the country.  Further, the company also recently commissioned India’s first 5-m wide plate mill with a capacity of 1.5MTPA
Essar Steel, a global producer of steel with a  production capacity of 14 MTPA. It is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer with a presence in North America, Europe, Midddle East and South East Asia, UK, UAE and Indonesia. Its products find wide acceptance in highly discerning consumer sectors such as automotive, white goods, construction, engineering, hydrocarbon and shipbuilding. It is the most versatile flat steel producer with integrated facilities from 5-m wide plates, hot rolling, cold rolling, galvanizing and color coating, pipes with a full distribution business consisting of steel processing, distribution centres and retail outlets under the brand - Essar Hypermart.
It operates eight steel processing and distribution centres globally with an aggregate capacity of over 3 million tonnes. Essar has the largest retail channel through 620 Essar Hypermarts.