Essar steel today announced highest ever monthly crude steel production of 3.8 lakh tonnes in March 2011, a growth of 24.04% per cent over the same period a year ago.
The breakup of monthly production is as follows:
| Product | Production Mar-11 | Production Mar-10 | Growth |
| Crude Steel | 3.8 lakh tonne | 3.07 lakh tonne | 24.04% |
| Finished Steel | 3.97 lakh tonne | 3.17 lakh tonne | 25.41% |
Essar Steel 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
About Essar Steel
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 592 Essar Hypermarts.
