JSPL commissions steel melting shop in Odisha

Leading steel maker Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL) commissioned country’s biggest steel melting shop and its allied unit of the 6 MTPA integrated steel plant at Angul in Odisha. Further, the steel melting shop has a capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and has highest flexibility for raw materials, as it can use solid hot feed, solid cold feed and hot metal feed.

Meanwhile, the electric arc furnace of the steel melting shop is of 250 tonnes capacity and is the largest in size in India and second in Asia. Thus with this commissioning, Angul plant has 2.5 million tonnes capacity now, while balance 3.5 million tonnes by the end of 2015.