JSPL ropes in Siemens VAI for plate-mill

摘要

The Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) received a EUR65 million order from Jindal Steel & Power Limited for the supply of a 5.0-m-wide plate-mill line which will be installed at a new integrated-steel-plant site in Orissa, India. The plant is scheduled for start-up in September 2008. Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) is an integrated Indian iron and steel producer with existing production and manufacturing facilities in Raigarh and Raipur in Chhattisgarh State. Presently, all steel production at JSPL is used for the manufacture of rails, H-beams and columns for the infrastructure and construction sectors. As part of a major investment program to expand its steel-production capacity and also to enter the flat-product-steel sector, JSPL signed a contract with the VAI Division of I&S for the supply of a 5.0-m-wide plate-mill line for installation at a new integrated-steel-plant site in Angul, Orissa. The annual production will be 1.2 million t/a of finished plates.