Out
of the 43 companies which had signed MoUs with the Orissa government for
establishing steel plants in the state in last two years, 13 companies have
since reached the commissioning stage.
According
to Orissa Steel & Mines minister Mr. Padmabah Behera, these 13 projects
include:
Again
six steel and sponge iron plants have started commercial production, while three
of them have qualified for recommendation of captive mining lease as they had
fulfilled the condition of attaining financial closure and 25 per cent capital
investment mark.
Steps
are being taken for recommending mining lease to these three steel plants.
Of
the six steel and sponge iron projects commissioned till date, Bhusan Group of
Companies had already produced 35,215.74 tpa of steel and 87,156.23 tpa of
sponge iron from its plant set up at Lapanga in Sambalpur district.
Production
figures of other five steel-cum-sponge iron plants are as follows:
| Company |
Location |
Steel
(capacity in tpa) |
Sponge
Iron (capacity in tpa) |
| Aarti
Steels Ltd |
at
Ghantikhal near Athgarh |
1242.
2 |
8150 |
| Neepaz
Metalicks Pvt Ltd |
Chadrihariharpur
near Rourkela |
16,500 |
1.10
lakh |
| Scaw
Industries Pvt Ltd |
Gundichapada
near Dhenkanal |
5402.201 |
40,546.910 |
| SMC
Power Generation Ltd |
Hirma
in Jharsuguda |
36,586.95 |
57,166
|
| Sree
Metaliks Ltd |
Loidapada
near Barbil in Keonjhar district |
48.616
|
1,18,944 |
Except
the steel plant of Bhusan Group, other five projects are mini-steel plants of
500,000 tpa capacity or below.
Other
five companies - SPS Sponge Iron Limited, Maheswari Ispat Ltd, Orissa Sponge
Iron Ltd, Orissa Cement India Ltd and Deepak Steels & Power Ltd - are
producing sponge iron from their plants located at Rampei near Khuntuni in
Cuttack district, Govindpur in Sambalpur district, Rajgangpur in Sundargarh
district and Topodihi near Barbil in Keonjhar district respectively.
Besides,
Visa Industries Limited is producing pig iron and Jindal Stainless Limited ferro
chrome. Both the plants are located at Duburi in Jajpur district.