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JSW Steel Dedicates Hot Strip Mill at Vijayanagar
Aug. 2, 2010 The new state-of-the-art hot strip mill (HSM) at JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works—said to be the widest and largest in India—was dedicated by Shri Virbhadra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Steel, Govt. of India, on July 31.
This new HSM—the second one at Vijayanagar—was successfully completed in March 2010, and it commenced commercial production on April 10. The new mill has 2250-mm width and a 1.5- to 25-mm thickness range. This increases the company’s product range, facilitating its entry in high-value products including carbon structure steel, high quality carbon steel, IF steel, low alloy steel, API steel (X-80), and structural steel for high-growth segments such as oil and gas, shipbuilding and tubing, and the automotive sector (dual phase steel and trip steel).
Current capacity for the HSM is 2 million tonnes per annum; capacity will be 5 million tonnes per annum upon completion of phase 2.
JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar Plant has the current production capacity of 7 million tonnes per annum—to become 10 million in 2011, making it the single largest Integrated Steel Plant at a single location in India, the company notes.
JSW Steel Ltd., belonging to JSW group, part of the O P Jindal Group, is one of the lowest-cost steel producers in the world. JSW Steel is engaged in manufacture of flat and long products including hot and cold rolled coils, galvanized and color-coated products, auto grade / white goods grade CRCA steel, bars and rods. Incorporated in 1994, JSW Steel has the largest galvanizing and color coating production capacity in the country and is the largest exporter of galvanized products with presence in more than 100 countries across five continents.