 "Steel industries looking at slurry pipelines to cut transportation cost")
Worried over clogging of roads and spiralling cost of surface and rail transport of raw materials, steel industries in Odisha are now looking at hauling iron ore from mine heads to their plant sites in slurry form through pipelines.
The trend was started by Essar Steel, which has laid 253 km of slurry pipeline to connect its ore washery plant in Keonjhar district with its 6-million-tonne-per-annum pellet unit at Paradip.
Now, Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL), which runs a 6 million tonne steel plant at Angul and JSW, proposes to set up a 10 million tonne steel plant at Paradip on the
