The Joint Plant Committee (JPC) in its latest report has said that India’s Crude steel production stood at 8.936 MT in December 2018, down by 1.4 percent over December 2017 and was down by 0.3 percent over November 2018.
The report highlighted that State-run SAIL, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, Tata Steel, Essar Steel, JSW Steel and Jindal Steel and Power together produced 47.462 MT, adding that the rest 31.522 MT came from other producers.
In December 2018, hot metal output stood at 6.158 MT, 2.6 percent higher over 6.001 MT in the same month in 2017. The country's pig iron production fell by 5.5 percent to 0.530 MT in December 2018 from 0.561 MT in December 2017. India has set an ambitious target of increasing its capacity to 300 MT by 2030-31.
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