JSPL’s 4 steelmaking facilities at Angul plant to be inaugurated tomorrow

Team Udayavani, Jun 15, 2018, 5:54 PM IST

New Delhi: JSPL today said Union Ministers Chaudhary Birender Singh and Dharmendra Pradhan will tomorrow dedicate to the nation its 3 MTPA basic oxygen furnace (BOF) at Angul steel plant in Odisha.

Besides, the ministers will inaugurate a 2 MTPA DRI plant, a blast furnace – claimed as India’s largest – and coal gasification plant for steelmaking based on indigenous coal, JSPL said in a statement.

The company’s plant at Angul is the largest steel manufacturing plant in Odisha, spread across 3,500 acres.

It has 1.5 MTPA rebar mill, 1.2 MTPA plate mill, 2.3 MTPA billet caster, 1.7 MTPA slab caster and 2.75 MTPA new electric oxygen furnace, the statement said.

It also has 810 MW capacity power plant for captive use, it added. 

Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) Chairman Naveen Jindal; Chairperson Emeritus of OP Jindal Group, Savitri Jindal and senior officials from steel and petroleum ministries will also be present at the event, it said.