JSW Steel production up 39% at 8 lakh tonnes in January

29 Feb 2012 Evaluate

JSW Steel reported 39 per cent jump in crude steel production for January at 8.05 lakh tonnes, largely due to better capacity utilisation at its Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka. The company had produced 5.80 lakh tonnes of steel in January, 2011. The Karnataka plant is producing steel above 80 per cent levels since last December. Supplies of auctioned iron ore have improved and this has led to better utilisation of all the four blast furnaces at the Vijayanagar plant in last two months (December-January). In January, flat steel production went up by 29 per cent to 5.95 lakh tonnes, compared to 4.62 lakh tonnes of the corresponding month of last fiscal. Output of the long product stood at 1.51 lakh tonnes during the month, up 65 per cent from January, 2011.

The Sajjan Jindal-led company had cut down its production levels by up to 70 per cent in the second half of the last year due to iron ore crunch in Karnataka, following a Supreme Court ban on mining in the state. However, it had reported a rise of 19 per cent in production levels for the October-December quarter to 19.39 lakh tonnes, when the iron ore supplies started improving.

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