Lakshmi Niwas Mittal

The plant, coming up at Kendrapara, is in addition to other investments of AM/NS in the state such as 6MTPA pelletization plant in Paradeep, beneficiation complex in Keonjhar and slurry pipeline

India's HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd, part owned by steel tycoon L N Mittal, will shut its 226,000 bpd Bathinda refinery in Punjab for about 40 days from end-January for maintenance, two sources said

Life in the steel industry is not easy. The gospel truth came from none other than the Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, Lakshmi N Mittal."Life in the steel industry in the last few years has not been easy. To be honest, life in the steel industry has often not been easy," he said in Kolkata at the St Xavier's University. Mittal, who happened to be a graduate of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, flew down from London to flag off the commencement of the first academic session of the university. The steel industry, the world over, has gone through a turmoil the last couple of years. The main reason being the flood of exports from China that nearly wrecked every steel market around the globe."As you can imagine given the size and scale of the company today, my leadership team is very important to me," Mittal went on. ArcelorMittal has 2,00,000 employees and operations in 60 countries.But the empire wasn't built in a day and Mittal recounted how he started ...