India’s Ministry of Steel has decided to ask the government-owned NMDC Limited to consider the option of doubling the capacity of its 3 million mt per year steel mill under construction at Nagarmar in Chhattisgarh state, a ministry official said on Monday, June 27.
The official stated that the Ministry of Steel will ask NMDC Limited, the country’s largest iron ore miner, to prepare a new project report for capacity expansion to 6 million mt and commence the expansion project close to the commissioning date of the current 3 million mt project.
He said that the $2.2 billion steel mill is expected to be ready for trial runs by the end of 2016, with commercial production scheduled for December 2017.