The project will enable increased production by almost doubling the furnace volume from 2,581 m³ to 4,323 m³. Competing with European suppliers through an international bid, the contract was awarded as a result of JSW’s evaluation of NSENGI’s unique revamping method of shortening the construction period and Marubeni’s project execution ability performed through past projects for JSW.
 
This project includes manufacturing and construction in India and will be NSENGI’s first project for supplying the highly-efficient blast furnace — whose technology has been developed in Japan — to India. The revamping method — the first of its kind to be performed in India — will shorten the shutdown period to less than 100 days and minimize production loss.
 
In 2010, NSENGI established its Kolkata-based subsidiary, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering India (NSEI) as its business hub for India and has since been promoting their business domestically. Besides this project, NSENGI and NSEI have supplied a coke dry quenching facility to Tata Steel Limited, JSW, and Bhushan Steel Limited and also supplied a continuous annealing and processing line and the electrolytic tinning line to Tata Steel.

NSENGI and Marubeni will continue contributing to emerging countries in terms of improvement of economic efficiency, CO2 emission reduction and energy-saving by expanding their global business and promoting their projects for not only this field but also other fields to India as well as to other overseas markets.