New Delhi: JSW Steel has registered an 8% growth in crude steel production in the first half of the FY11at 3.14 million tonnes (mt) as compared to the corresponding period last year, reports PTI.
The company said in a statement today that production of flat steel products—used primarily by the automobile industry—increased by 32% to 2.36 mt in April-September 2010, compared to that in the corresponding period last year.
The output of long steel products for infrastructure and construction companies also jumped by 44% to 0.57 mt in the first half of the year, from that in the corresponding period a year ago.
“The company has started generation of power at its 300mw captive power plant and heating of two blocks out of four blocks of Coke Oven-4, in the 10mtpa (million tonnes per annum) expansion project at Vijayanagar works in Karnataka,” the statement said. The Vijaynagar unit has a capacity of 6.8 mt and the expansion is likely to be completed by the first quarter of 2011.
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