Sathavahana Ispat Ltd has announced that it has commenced commercial operations of coke oven batteries for manufacture of metallurgical coke with rated capacity 300,000 tons per annum at its Greenfield project situated at Kudithini village in Bellary District of Karnataka effective from March 21st 2007.

The release added that the works on the 30 MW co generation power plants are in progress and its commissioning will be announced separately.