Neelachal Ispat Nigam's hot metal production zooms 111% in FY19

NINL accomplished long steel and billets production of 76,866 tonnes and 68,081 tonnes respectively

Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL), a steel firm jointly promoted by trading giant MMTC Ltd and two Odisha government controlled entities, has recorded 111 per cent surge in hot metal output in last fiscal.

Production of hot metal at NINL's Duburi plant in Odisha touched 0.76 million tonnes (mt) in FY19 compared with 0.36 mt in 2017-18. Hot metal output in last fiscal is NINL's highest since inception.

Pig iron production grew by 83.2 per cent to 0.33 mt, the steel mill's second best since the date of starting commercial operations. Sinter output, too, witnessed a robust spike of 91.1 per cent