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Essar Steel Expands Service Center Capacity in India to 2.5 MTPA
05/07/2009 - Essar Steel inaugurates its fourth steel service center facility in India, bringing its total processing capacity in India to 2.5 million tonnes/year.
Essar Steel has inaugurated its fourth Steel Service Centre facility in India at Bahadurgarh near New Delhi.
The new Bahadurgarh facility, which Essar set up at a cost of Rs 750 million, adds 250,000 tonnes/year of new processing capacity. The addition brings the company’s annual capacity from its four service centers in India to a total of 2.5 million tonnes/year, the largest processing capacity in the country.
Ideally located near the country’s largest auto hub, Essar’s new Bahadurgarh facility will include a cold rolled slitting line, cold rolled narrow and wide cut-to-length lines, and hot rolled cut-to-length line. The new facility will enable Essar Steel to cater to even single sheet customers, with small lots and customized deliveries for ready-to-use steel.
“This is one of our most modern steel processing facilities that will cater to various user segments in North India, like auto & auto components, white goods and SME,” said Vikram Amin, Executive Director, Sales and Marketing for Essar Steel. “We will also cater to the needs of our Essar Steelhypermart consumers.” Essar Steel has over 145 Hypermarts and Expressmarts across India.
Speaking at the facility’s inauguration, Essar Steel Business Group CEO J. Mehra said the company was planning to help meet the needs of customer service and just-in-time delivery to important segments of the country’s developing economy by investing over Rs. 1000 crore for setting up of such facilities across the country.
Essar Group Chairman Shashi Ruia noted that such investments were also part of the company’s strategy to be closer to its customers.
The new Bahadurgarh service center is backed by Essar Steel’s 4.6 million tonnes/year steel plant at Hazira, thus ensuring consistent supplies and quality of products. With the commissioning of the new facility, Essar Steel’s four service centers now have a combined capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per annum, which is the country’s largest.
Essar Steel Limited, part of Essar Global Limited, is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer—from iron ore to ready-to-market products. Essar Steel has a current capacity of 4.6 million tonnes per annum with products supplied to a wide range of consumer sectors, such as automotive, white goods, construction, engineering and shipbuilding. Essar Steel produces highly customized products catering to a variety of product segments and is India’s largest exporter of flat products to the U.S. and European markets, and to the growing markets of South East Asia and the Middle East. It has invested in downstream capabilities to evolve from being a product based company to becoming a value-added service provider. It has a global network of retail steel outlets, called Steel Hypermarts, and offers services such as cutting, slitting and blanking of steel sheets, through specialized Steel Service Centers worldwide.
The Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets in the manufacturing and services sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics, and Projects. Essar has a presence in more than 15 countries worldwide.
