Sesa Goa Limited announced the successful commissioning of its third blast furnace of 450 m³ capacity with the hot metal production commencing from 17 August 2012. With this commissioning, Sesa’s pig iron plant becomes the largest producer of low phosphorous pig iron in India with an installed capacity of 625,000 tonnes per annum which is increased from an earlier capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum.

The company has also successfully completed the expansion of its metallurgical coke capacity from 280,000 tonnes to 560,000 tonnes per annum along with the 30 MW waste heat recovery power plant.

The commissioning of the associated sinter plant with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per annum is also progressing as planned in line for commissioning in the current quarter.

Sesa is India’s largest producer and exporter of iron ore in the private sector. The company is a majority owned and controlled subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, the London listed FTSE 100 diversified metals and mining major. For more than five decades, Sesa has been involved in iron ore exploration, mining, beneficiation and exports. Sesa has iron ore mining operations in Goa and Karnataka. It has recently acquired 51% stake in Western Cluster Limited, a Liberia based company engaged in developing the Western Cluster Iron Ore Deposits into a large integrated Iron Ore Project. Sesa is also into manufacturing pig iron and metallurgical coke, with a 280,000 tonnes per annum metallurgical coke plant and a 250,000 tonnes per annum pig iron plant in Goa.