During the year ended March 2016, JSW completed expansion activities at all three of its integrated steelworks in India, raising steelmaking capacity to 18 million mt/year from the previous 14.3 million mt/year.
The 12 million mt/year Vijayanagar steelworks, which is the single largest steel plant in the country based at one location, saw its capacity raised to 12 million mt/year from 10 million mt/year during the year ended March.
Capacity was similarly raised at the Dolvi works in the western state of Maharashtra to 5 million mt/year from the previous 3.3 million mt/year, and at the Salem works in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to 1.25 million mt/year from the previous 1 million mt/year.
The company has further plans to expand steelmaking capacity to 40 million mt/year by 2025, its deputy managing director, Dr Vinod Nowal, revealed to Platts at the Vijayanagar works. The company plans to commission about 10 million mt/year of new capacity within the next five years.
The largest volume increase will be at JSW’s Dolvi unit, where an additional 5 million mt/year will be built to take capacity to 10 million mt/year. The Vijayanagar unit is likely to see 4 million mt/year added to raise the works’ overall capacity to 16 million mt/year. A further 1 million mt/year is planned at the Salem unit in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Source: Platts
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