Essar Steel to reach 12 million tonne pellet capacity at Paradip

Essar Steel aims to reach a pellet making capacity of 12 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) at its Paradip unit before the end of this financial year. The current capacity of the pellet plant is six mtpa.

"We are in very advanced stages of completing the expansion of the pellet project at Paradip. Once we are through with the expansion, it will be the single largest pelletisation complex in the country”, said an Essar Steel official.

Essar Steel runs the shore based pellet unit at Paradip using low-grade iron ore fines (58-63% Fe) beneficiated at its plant at Dabuna near