A pellet plant under a joint venture between KIOCL and the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) will be established at SAIL’s any one of the five steel plants in the country.
In January 2019, KIOCL entered into an agreement with SAIL to set up a pellet plant. A feasibility study is underway for consideration of setting up a plant of suitable capacity at the premises of SAIL’s Bokaro Steel Plant or at any other location across SAIL’s integrated steel plants.
SAIL has five integrated steel plants, namely Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha, Bokaro Steel Plant in Jharkhand, and Durgapur Steel Plant and IISCO Steel Plant in West Bengal. KIOCL, under the Ministry of Steel, has an iron oxide pellet plant with a capacity of 3.5 million tpa at Mangaluru in Karnataka.