Essar Steel Processing and Distribution, part of Essar Steel, announced the commissioning of service centre facility that will cater to the needs of customers in Middle East and neighboring regions.

Set up as the most modern Steel Service Centre facility at Dubai in UAE, it has a processing capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum. Located in Jebel Ali Free Zone South, the facility comprises three state of the art hot rolled cut to length, HR Slitter and CR & GI combination slitting & CTL line.

Processed material will be shipped to countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain by road. For local customers of UAE who are presently entirely dependent on imports, it will supply JIT deliveries.

Mr Vikram Amin ED sales & marketing said “Middle East is a natural market for us since we are located on the west coast of India. The facility at Dubai is part of our distribution strategy to enhance our reach to customers and improve our customer centricity, reliability of delivery and thus supports us in becoming the steel maker of choice for large and small customers.”

This is the third facility after the one in the UK for the European region and one in Indonesia that cater to East Asian market. With this, Essar Steel Processing and Distribution has ramped up its international service centre capacity to 1 million tonne per annum.