Steel Authority of India (SAIL), India’s largest state-owned iron ore producer has increased its production of hot metal and saleable steel by 2%. The company has also posted 1% growth in crude steel production.
In the first nine months of 2012-13, the company produced 10.7 million tonnes of hot metal, 10.09 mt of crude steel and 9.25 mt of saleable steel.
Earlier, SAIL had produced 9.72 lakh tonnes of saleable steel in November, up 8% over the corresponding month last fiscal. The company produced 8.2 million tonnes of saleable steel during April-November 2012, up 2.3% over the corresponding period in the previous fiscal.
