Essar Steel to supply plates for warship; bags order from Mazagaon Dock

摘要

Essar Steel approved by Indian navy for supply of steel plates for war ship; Receives order from Mazagaon Docks (MDL) to supply 13,000 tonnes of plates; First-ever order for plates for MDL from an Indian steel company. Essar Steel's plate mill became the first premier plate producer in the country to be recognized for indigenous development of steel for building ships for the Indian Navy. Set up at a cost of approximately Rs. 2,000 crore, the plate mill has an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and controls - along with cutting edge technology sourced from Siemens Voest Alpine - the mill is the only one of its kind in the country capable of producing 5-m wide plates conforming to global standards.