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NMDC Signs Contract for India’s Largest Blast Furnace
06/03/2011 - NMDC Limited has signed a contract with Tata Projects Limited and Danieli Corus to set up India’s largest blast furnace for a 3 MTPY integrated steel plant the company is planning to construct at Nagamar.
NMDC Limited, a Government of India Enterprise, has signed a contract with Tata Projects Limited and Danieli Corus to set up India’s largest blast furnace for a three million tonnes/year integrated steel plant the company is planning to construct at Nagamar in the Chhattisgarh State.
Mr. Rana Som, CMD, NMDC, explained that the new integrated steel plant is to be the ‘fastest moving’ steel plant project among all greenfield or brownfield projects in the country. The steel plant is part of the company’s forward integration and value addition program.
The new 4506-cubic-meter blast furnace is to be designed for the production of 9900 tonnes of hot metal per day. It will feature stat-of-the art refractory and a soft water closed loop system as well as bell-less top charging equipment and pulverized coal injection to help reduce operating costs and improve furnace performance. NMDC expects the consortium to commission the new blast furnace in 33 months.
The contract for the new blast furnace was signed at NMDC’s corporate office in Hyderabad by Mr. N.K. Nanda, Director (Technical, NMDC; Mr. K.P. Misra, Vice President, Tata Products Limited; Mr. Peter Zonneveld, Managing Director, Danieli Corus Netherland; and Mr. Gajendra Panwar, Danieli Corus India. The signing took place in the presence of Shri Rana Som, CMD, NMDC and other dignitaries.
Incorporated in 1958 as a Government of India fully owned public enterprise, NMDC is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. NMDC is India's single largest iron ore producer and exporter, and presently produces about 30 million tonnes of iron ore from three fully mechanized mines that have all been awarded ISO 9001-2000 certification.
