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Essar Commissions New Steel Service Center in Indonesia
06/26/2008 - PT Essar Indonesia commissions its most advanced service center in Essar Group’s cold rolling complex near Jakarta.
PT Essar Indonesia (PTEI), the Essar Group’s steel plant in Indonesia, has commissioned its most advanced service center in the firm’s cold rolling complex near Jakarta.
Built at a cost of USD 15 million, the new center will feature hot and cold rolled slitters, four corrugation lines, floor deck, cut-to-length lines, and truss-making lines that are capable of processing hot rolled, pickled, cold rolled and coated steel products. With an annual capacity of 0.3 million tonnes, this will be the only facility in Indonesia to offer pickled, cold rolled, galvanized and service center operations under one roof.
With its comprehensive range of capabilities, PTEI’s new service center will cater to customer segments that expect excellent quality and superior service, including manufacturers of automotive equipment, components, white goods, enamel & cookware, precision tubes, electrical stamping, furniture, construction and electrical appliances & panels. Such customers are predominantly local and use steel in smaller quantities.
The center will use PTEI’s pickled, cold rolled and galvanized products in thicknesses ranging from 0.2 to 3.2 mm, widths from 20 to 1380 mm, and lengths from 100 to 6000 mm.
PT Essar Indonesia operates a cold rolling complex with cold rolling capacity of 400,000 tonnes per annum and galvanizing capacity of 150,000 tonnes per annum. It is a part of Essar Global Limited.
Essar Global Limited (EGL) is a diversified corporate group with businesses in the manufacturing and services sectors of steel, energy, power, telecommunications, shipping, ports & logistics, mining & mineral resources, and construction. EGL has a firm value of approximately USD 50 billion and employs 38,000 people worldwide. More than 15% of Essar’s workforce is in the Americas.
Essar Steel is a global producer of steel operating out of India, North America, the Middle East and Asia. It is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer with a current capacity of 8.5 million tons. With Essar’s expansion in India, Asia and North America, capacity is expected to rise to about 20 million tons by 2012. Essar successfully acquired Algoma Steel in Sault Ste Marie, Canada, in 2007, where (following a capital expenditure program and incorporating improved work processes) it has increased production from 2.5 to 3.4 million tons per annum in just 10 months.
