JSPL to inaugurate key steelmaking facilities at its 6 MTPA Angul plant tomorrow

Bhubaneswar: Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL), India’s leading steelmaker and part of the OP Jindal group will dedicate its core steelmaking facilities at India’s Most Modern 6 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant to the Nation at Angul tomorrow. These key steel manufacturing facilities are  India’s Largest 4554 m3 Blast Furnace (BF), 3 MTPA Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF), Worlds First & Largest Syngas based 2 MTPA DRI Plant and  Worlds Largest Coal Gasification Plant (CGP) for Steelmaking based on Swadeshi Coal. Union Steel minister  Chaudhary Birender Singh will dedicate these facilities in the presence of Union Petroleum and Skill Development minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

“The 6 MTPA steel plant at Angul is a manifestation of JSPL’s dreams, transformed to reality by passion and commitment of my 50,000 colleagues. It is a moment of great pride for the JSPL family to Dedicate this Industrial Marvel of Modern India to the Nation tomorrow”, Mr. Naveen Jindal, Chairman – JSPL said.

The Greenfield complex was initially conceived as India’s first and only steel plant to operate on purely swadeshi raw material. Over time, the Angul steel plant has emerged as India’s most resilient steel-manufacturing destination, deploying a judicious mix of Oxygen and Electric steelmaking routes. The 6 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at Angul is the largest steel manufacturing plant in the state of Odisha. The Greenfield plant spread over 3500 acres has created 50,000 employment opportunities and anchors a socio-economic ecosystem of one lakh families.