Essar Steel operates the world's largest gas-based hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant with a production capacity of 5.1 million tonne per annum (MTPA). The plant uses state-of-the-art technology, which ensures high quality raw material for the steel plant. Essar Steel is one of the world's lowest cost producers of HBI on a per tonne basis. The plant is supported by a captive power plant of 32MW, which operates at 100% capacity.

Salient features of Essar Steel's HBI plant

Hot Rolled Coils

Essar Steel is the largest steel producer in western India, with a current capacity of 4.6 MTPA at Hazira, Gujarat, and plans to increase this to 9 MTPA. The Indian operations also include an 8 MTPA beneficiation plant at Bailadilla, Chattisgarh, and an 8 MTPA pellet complex at Visakhapatnam.

The Essar Steel complex at Hazira in Gujarat, India, houses the world’s largest gas-based single location sponge iron plant, with a capacity of 5.1 MTPA. The complex also houses the steel plant. and the 1.4 MTPA cold rolling complex. The steel complex has a complete infrastructure setup, including a captive port, lime plant and oxygen plant.

The dedicated infrastructure of Hazira Complex includes an independent water supply, power, lime & oxygen plant, a township and a captive port that can handle up to 6 MTPA of cargo, with modern handling equipment including barges and floating cranes.

Essar Steel produces highly customised value-added products catering to a variety of product segments and is India’s largest exporter of flat products, selling close to half of its production to the highly demanding US and European markets, and to the growing markets of South East Asia and the Middle East. The company’s products conform to quality specifications of international quality certification agencies, like ABS, API, TUV Rhine Land and Lloyd’s Register. Essar Steel is the first Indian steel company to receive an ISO 14001 certification for environment management practices.