Commercial production has commenced from the steel plant set up by Gujarat NRE Coke at village Lunva in the Kutch district of Gujarat.According to a release issued by Gujarat NRE Coke to the BSE today, the plant has been set up with an investment of nearly Rs 50 crore, and will manufacture billets/blooms/ingots and hot rolled products."The company is also in the process of setting up a captive power plant of 20 MW. The steel plant and the captive power plant are in adjacent premises of its coke manufacturing facility at Bhachau. The power plant would be using the waste heat generated by the coke oven plant thereby leading to substantial savings in cost," the release added.The company has already set up a wind farm with 25MW capacity in Kutch to provide cheap green power to the steel plant, the release said."The first coal shipment from the Australian mines is on the high seas on way to India," the release added.
