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Essar Steel Processing and Distribution Makes Dubai a Middle Eastern Hub
06/21/2011 - Essar Steel Processing and Distribution has commissioned a service center facility that will serve customers in the Middle East and neighboring regions. The Dubai facility has a processing capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum.
Essar Steel Processing and Distribution (ESPD) has commissioned a service center facility that will cater to the needs of customers in the Middle East and neighboring regions. This is its third facility after the one in the U.K. for the European region and one in Indonesia that caters to the East Asian market.
ESPD has now ramped up its international service-center capacity to 1 million tonnes per annum. The Dubai facility has a processing capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum. Located in Jebel Ali Free Zone South, Dubai, UAE, the facility comprises three state-of-the-art hot rolled cut-to-length, HR Slitter & CR & GI Combination (Slitting & Cut-to-length) Lines.
Processed material will be shipped to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain by road. ESPD Dubai plans to supply just-in-time deliveries for local customers of UAE who are presently entirely dependent on imports. Essar Steel will make shipments from the 10 million tonnes-per-annum (MTPA) plant at Hazira in Gujarat to the ESPD Dubai for providing custom-made steel products to clients.
ESPD, the flat steel processing arm of Essar Steel, is targeting to become a 5 MTPA-capacity servicing chain. It currently operates at 3.3 MTPA in India with seven service centers, and 1 MTPA capacity internationally with three Service centers.
ESPD operates various equipment to process cold-rolled, hot-rolled, galvanized, and pre-painted coil and plate mill plates. Its product range covers 0.25 to 200 mm thickness and includes slit coils, blanks, welded beams, profile burnt plates, and surface treatment.
Vikram Amin, Executive Director (Sales & Marketing), said, “Middle East is a natural market for us since we are located on the west coast of India. The facility at Dubai is part of our distribution strategy to enhance our reach to customers and improve our customer centricity, reliability of delivery and thus supports us in becoming the steelmaker of choice for large and small customers.”
Essar Steel Ltd., part of Essar Global Ltd., is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer—from iron ore to ready-to-market products. Essar Steel has a current capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum. Its products are used in a range of consumer sectors, such as automotive, white goods, construction, engineering, and shipbuilding. It has a global network of retail steel outlets, called Steel Hypermarts, and offers services, like cutting, slitting, and blanking of steel sheets, through specialized Steel Service Centers worldwide.
