Indian SAIL has announced to commission new sinter plant at its IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) at Burnpur in the eastern state of West Bengal, with expecting annual production capacity approximately 3.88 million tons.

The new steel project will include installing two machines of 204 square meters each from India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

It will help the company to boost crude steel annual production capacity up to 2.5 million ton from 300,000 tons presently. Also, Posco Engineering & Construction will help to install a 4,060 cubic meter blast furnace with designed annual production capacity of 2.75 million tons.

The new plant is expected to run capacity up to 80% of the iron ore feed the new blast furnace accordingly.

Source: Yieh