The Indian steelmaker JSW Steel Limited has announced that its crude steel output in the first half of the fiscal year 2010-11 (H1 FY 2010-11) rose by eight percent year on year to 3.14 million mt.
Meanwhile, in H1 FY 2010-11, the company's flat rolled product output totaled 2.36 million mt, increasing by 32 percent, while its long product output rose by 44 percent to 570,000 mt, both compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year.
| Product | ProductionH1 FY 2010-11 (million mt) | Growth over H1 FY 2009-10 (%) |
Crude steel |
3.14 |
8 |
Rolled products : flat |
2.36 |
32 |
Rolled products : long |
0.57 |
44 |
Crude steel production for the second quarter of FY 2010-11 stood at 1.57 million mt, with flat rolled product output at 1.27 million mt and long rolled product output at 260,000 mt.
In the period in question, JSW started generation of power at its 300 MW captive power plant and began heating two blocks out of four blocks of Coke Oven-4, as part of the 10 million mt per year expansion project at Vijayanagar works.