Welcome to Essar Steel

Overview

Essar Steel is a versatile manufacturer, capable of producing highly customized products. Catering to quality-conscious niches, we compete against top-of-the-league international steel producers. For example, we are one of the few manufacturers globally who can make API grade steel with low sulphur. We cater to a wide variety of product segments including roofing, automobiles, oil and gas, shipbuilding, fabrication and white goods. Domestically, we have emerged as leaders in product development, quality and service. To maintain and enhance our leading position, our R&D team is constantly developing new grades and applications.


No wonder we are India's largest exporter of flat products, selling almost one-third of our production to the highly demanding US and European markets, and to the growing markets of South East Asia and the Middle East. A number of major client companies have approved our steel for their use, including Caterpillar, Hyundai, Swaraj Mazda, the Konkan Railway and Maruti Suzuki. Essar Steel is among the 25 percentile of lowest cost producers world-wide and has acquired extensive quality accreditations. Our lean team gives us one of the highest productivities and lowest manpower costs among steel plants internationally.
Seamless integration A major strategic advantage is our high level of forward and backward integration. We are totally integrated - from raw material to finished products, adding value at every stage of the manufacturing process.

Bailadilla Ore Beneficiation Plant At Bailadilla, where some of the world's richest and finest ore is available, Essar has set up a beneficiation plant of 8 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) capacity, which ensures the highest quality iron ore. The iron ore slurry is pumped through a 267 km. pipeline (the second longest in the world) to the pellet plant, yielding advantages of quality, cost and real time inventory management.

Visakhapatnam Pelletisation Plant The slurry is received at our Pellet plant at Visakhapatnam, which has a capacity of 8 MTPA, providing vital raw material for the steel plant at Hazira.

Hazira Steel Complex Our steel complex at Hazira, Gujarat, houses a 5.0 MTPA sponge iron plant, the world's largest gas-based HBI producer. The plant provides raw materials for our state-of-the-art 3.0 MTPA hot rolled coil (HRC) plant, the first and largest of India's new generation steel mills. This plant, fed with inputs from three electric arc furnaces and three casters, increasing its capacity to 4.6 MTPA. The complex's sophisticated infrastructure includes independent water supply and power, oxygen and lime plants, a township and a captive port capable of handling up to 8 MTPA of cargo with modern handling equipment like barges and floating cranes.

Cold Rolling Complex At the other end of the value chain, the Company's downstream facilities include a 1.2 MTPA Cold Rolling Complex, adds further muscle to our steel making facilities. The complex comprises two pickling lines of 1.4 MTPA capacity, a reversing mill and a 1.2 MTPA Tandem Mill, two Galvanizing lines of 0.5 MTPA, Batch Annealing Furnace of 0.5 MTPA, a Skin Pass Mill of 1.0 MTPA , Cold Rolling and Tandem mills and a Galvanizing plant. This enables Essar Steel to get into the genre of products that are tailor-made for automotive, white goods, shipbuilding, agriculture and construction industries - segments that were the exclusive domain of a few international manufacturers.

P.T. Essar Indonesia - Our cold rolling complex in Indonesia P T Essar is Indonesia's largest private sector flat products company, with a domestic market share of 35% and a history of process and product innovation. After a major expansion drive, its CR capacity has been enhanced to 400,000 TPA and its newly set up galvanising capacity is 1,50,000 TPA.

	Customer-driven excellence Customer delight drives everything we do at Essar Steel. To allow customers to consistently choose the best, we became the first Indian company to brand flat products, under the name '24-carat steel' with a full range including hot and cold rolled coils, galvanised sheets and plates. From order booking to delivery, our information technology systems are integrated between processes and with suppliers and customers. Our major customers can simply go online to place orders or check details like their order status, dispatch details, accounts and due payments. Our Systems Applications & Products (SAP R/3) installation is India's biggest and has been judged the best-implemented Indian SAP site by SAP AG Germany.

Essar Steel actively participates in the Essar Group's clickforsteel.com, an on-line Asian steel vortal through which we have been able to reduce multiple distribution layers, making transactions transparent and extending our reach to various small users across the country.