Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) has commissioned the billet caster plant as part of the six MTPA integrated steel project in Angul, Odisha.

“We have commissioned India’s largest capacity billet caster plant in Angul, within a record time of one year; setting yet another benchmark in the country. This would enhance our regional product portfolio since we will now be able to produce long products in addition to the flat products already being produced in the Angul plant,” said Ravi Uppal, Managing Director and Group CEO, JSPL.

The billet caster unit of 1×8 Strands and a maximum capacity of 2.3 MTPA has a casting speed of 3.6 metres per minute; claims to be the fastest in the world. The project harnessed the in-house capability of JSPL’s heavy machinery division in Raipur, which provided technological equipment’s and manufactured the biggest Ladle Turret for the Angul plant.

“The project has been executed using innovations in civil and structural works such as Speed Floor casting, Schnell panels and other modern structural concepts,” the company states.

As part of the six MTPA integrated steel project in Angul, in the first phase of (2 MTPA); JSPL has already set up the coal gasification plant to produce sponge iron using indigenous high ash coal-based syn-gas as the reducing agent for its vertical shaft DRI.