Essar Steel commissions CSP mill at Hazira complex

Essar Steel has commissioned a state-of-the-art Compact Strip Production (CSP) mill having a capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), the company informed in a statement issued on Thursday. The CSP mill is a part of the company's expansion plans of raising the steel production capacity at Hazira from 4.6 MTPA to 10 MTPA at a cost of Rs 13,500 crores.

Supplied by SMS Siemag, Germany, the CSP mill is capable of producing high strength steels including Dual Phase steel. The products from the mill have diverse applications in general engineering, line pipes for hydrocarbon industry, welded tubes, electrical steel, automotive industry and LPG.

 

Essar Steel has already commissioned two iron making units – a blast furnace with a capacity of 1.73 MTPA and a DRI unit of 1.74 MTPA, a conarc furnace of 2.5 MTPA and a continuous caster of 1. 45 MTPA Further, the company also recently commissioned India’s first 5-m wide plate mill with a capacity of 1.5 MTPA and a pipe mill with an annual capacity of 0.6 MTPA, the company statement said.

Besides the steel capacities, Essar has also invested in supporting infrastructure at Hazira that include power plants of 1,015 MW at cost of Rs 3,450 crores and an all-weather port of 30 MTPA at a cost of Rs 1,350 crore.

The Hazira plant will stand among the ten largest flat steel facilities at any single location in the world and the largest in India. So far, the company has pumped in the investment of Rs 30,000 crore towards the steel complex at Hazira, which will also be one of the few steel facilities which are fully integrated and will produce the entire range of flat products, the company informed.

The plant is capable of producing strips of thickness as low as 0.8 mm - the thinnest rolled steel in India.