OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2011. Essar steel today announced highest ever monthly crude steel production of 3.8 lakh tonnes  in March 2011, a growth of 24.04% per cent over the same period a year ago.
The breakup of monthly production is as follows:

Product

Production
March 2011

Production
March 2010

Growth

Crude Steel

3.8 lakh tonne

3.07 lakh tonne

24.04%

Finished Steel

3.97 lakh tonne

3.17 lakh tonne

25.41%

Essar Steel is close to completing its expansion of steel making capacity to 10 MTPA. As part of this expansion, Essar Steel has already commissioned two iron making units – a blast furnace with a capacity of 1.73 million tonnes and a DRI unit of 1.74 million tonnes, a conarc furnace of 2.5 million tonnes, a continuous caster of 1. 45 million tonnes and a CSP mill of 3.5 MTPA. On completion of the expansion, Essar Steel will be the largest flat steel producer in a single location in the country.  Further, the company also recently commissioned India’s first 5-m wide plate mill with a capacity of 1.5MTPA.