JSPL's Angul Plant records highest ever Hot Metal Production in a Day

India's largest Blast Furnace (BF) at Angul plant of JSPL has produced its highest ever hot metal production of 10,845 MT for a single day on Tuesday.

This is the ever highest production produced by any of the blast furnaces in India. The furnace is stable for the last week and has continuously produced more than 10,000 tonnes per day. The largest BF of the country having the volume of 4,554 cubic metres is running smoothly to cater the maximum need of hot metal for 6 MTPA capacity of Steel Melt Shop.
JSPL's 6MTPA integrated steelmaking complex at Angul is the most modern and Odisha's largest integrated steel plant.

JSPL has a debt of around INR 46,000 crore and is facing financial crisis due to cancellation of its coal mine lease by the Supreme Court coupled with weak global commodity prices. However, the company plans to aims to clear all its debt by 2021-22.

In October last year, Jindal announced the company's plans to increase the capacity of its Angul plant to 20 million tonnes per annum by 2030, set up an industrial park in Odisha and lay a 200-km slurry pipeline from Barbil to Angul for transportation of iron ore.

In May'19, JSPL bagged INR 665 crore order from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) to supply 89,042 tonnes of rails. The company has already completed over 50% of the order and the rest will be completed by March 10. This is the second big rail order in less than a year, the first-ever rail order to JSPL for supplying close to one lakh tonnes rails to Indian Railways was completed in April 2019.