The Essar Steel Hazira complex announced doubling of its capacity to 10 million tonnes per annum.

This expansion makes the Hazira Steel Complex the largest single location flat steel producer in India and the fourth largest single location flat steel producer globally.

Essar has three iron making technologies HBI/DRI, COREX and Blast Furnace. These technologies give them flexibility in their raw material inputs, be it iron ore or energy, in the following ways: The complex uses varying grades of iron ore inputs, including lump ore, fines, slimes, sinter and pellets

The complex uses different energy sources, including natural gas, coking coal, coke, COREX gas, blast furnace gas and non coking coal

With this expansion the complex will be able to offer the entire range of flat products from thin strips and thick plates to pipes, cold rolled and coated products.
New compact strip production mill is capable of producing thin gauge strips of thicknesses as low as 0.8 mm
CSP along with the hot strip mill, plate mill, pipe mill and other existing downstream facilities offer the ability to produce the entire range of value added flat steel products
Over 70% of products are value added

Mr Shashi Ruia chairman of Essar Group said that “We would like to dedicate this plant to the nation. When I first ventured into Hazira, it was my desire to put India on the global steel map and today that dream has come true. Our world class steel complex is a testament to the hard work put in by the Essar family and our small contribution to the steel industry and India’s growth story.”