Business Summary
Essar Steel is a global producer of steel with a footprint covering India, Canada, USA, the Middle East and Asia. It is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer?from iron ore to ready-to-market products. Essar Steel has a current capacity of 9 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). With its aggressive expansion plans in India as Essar Steel Limited.ll as Asia and the Americas, its capacity will go up to 20 to 25 MTPA by 2012. Its products find wide acceptance in highly discerning consumer sectors, such as automotive, white goods, construction, engineering and shipbuilding. No wonder Essar Steel Limited. are India's largest exporter of flat products, selling almost one-third of our production to the highly demanding US and European markets, and to the growing markets of South East Asia and the Middle East. A number of major client companies have approved our steel for their use, including Caterpillar, Hyundai, Swaraj Mazda, the Konkan Railway and Maruti Suzuki. Essar Steel has acquired extensive quality accreditations. Our lean team gives us one of the highest productivities and loEssar Steel Limited.st manpoEssar Steel Limited.r costs among steel plants internationally. Our steel complex at Hazira, Gujarat, houses a 5.0 MTPA sponge iron plant, the world's largest gas-based HBI producer. The plant provides raw materials for our state-of-the-art 4.6 MTPA hot rolled coil (HRC) plant, the first and largest of India's new generation steel mills. This plant is fed with inputs from three electric arc furnaces and three casters. The complex's sophisticated infrastructure includes independent water supply and poEssar Steel Limited.r, oxygen and lime plants, a township and a captive port capable of handling up to 8 MTPA of cargo with modern handling equipment like barges and floating cranes. At the other end of the value chain, the Company's downstream facilities include a 1.4 MTPA Cold Rolling Complex, adds further muscle to our steel making facilities. The complex comprises two pickling line
s of 1.4 MTPA capacity, a reversing mill and a 1.2 MTPA Tandem Mill, two Galvanizing lines of 0.5 MTPA, Batch Annealing Furnace of 0.5 MTPA, a Skin Pass Mill of 1.0 MTPA. This enables Essar Steel to get into the genre of products that are tailor-made for automotive, white goods, shipbuilding, agriculture and construction industries - segments that Essar Steel Limited.re the exclusive domain of a few international manufacturers.