Market Trends Essar Group

Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with a dominant presence across manufacturing and services sectors Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping & Logistics, Construction and Mining & Minerals Enterprise value of approximately USD 50 Billion The company has a firm foothold in India with presence in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Africa and South East Asia

The demand for high-strength, extra wide plates is growing. This increase is due to the changing market needs brought about by an increased usage of sophisticated technology in various strategic sectors of Pipeline Manufacturing, Ship Building etc.

Essar Steel Pioneers of Extra Width Plates in India

Essar Steel is the only steel company in India with the capacity to produce 5 meter wide plates. These plates are produced as per customer specifications, using the most sophisticated technology. These plates will also conform to all relevant National and International Specifications.

Essar's State-of-the-Art Plate Mill at Hazira

Our ultra modern mill with Level-II automation system and Flatness and Profile control models are equipped with heat treatment (Normalizing and Quenching) facilities. It is also equipped with online Full Body Ultra-Sonic Testing and Shot-Blasting and Painting facilities. The mill has latest technologies like: Thermo-Mechanical Controlled Rolling (TMCR) To achieve specific reduction by controlling the temperature during rolling Plan View Rolling (PVR) To improve the plate's rectangularity Acceleated Direct Cooling Operations (ADCO) To provide a highly controllable, accurate and accelerated cooling capability that will ensure homogeneous cooling over the entire plate width Edge Masking To get a homogeneous temperature pattern over the width of the plate. This avoids over cooling and under cooling of plate edges

Essar Steel

A fully integrated global carbon steel producer from iron ore to ready-to-market products A current capacity of 9 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) with aggressive expansion plans in India, Asia and the Americas to increase its capacity to 25 MTPA The largest steel producer in western India, with a current capacity of 4.6 MTPA at Hazira, Gujarat, and plans to increase this to 10 MTPA

RECEIVING Slabs Slab Reheat Furnaces

4 HI Plate Mill

Thick Plate Processing

Hot Leveller Slab Yard Primary Descaler ADCO Cooling Hot Paint Marker Cooling Bed-1 >50 mm

Slitting Shear

DS Trim Shear

UST

Crop Shear QC Lab

Cooling Bed-2 <50 mm

DISPATCH Finished Plates

Stock and Shipping Yards Chain Transfer & Turn over Device Plate Marker

Cross Trans # 2 Dividing Shear

Cross Trans # 2

Cross Trans # 3 Cross Trans #4

Cold Leveller

Plate Piler

Heat Treatment Shot Blasting Painting

The Products for Special Applications will have the following Certifications:
BIS Certification for all grades of IS 2062, IS 2002 and IS 5986 Ship Building Grade's Certification by members of International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), namely Lloyds Register Asia, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK), Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) IBR Certification for grades IS 2002, ASTM A 515 and ASTM A 516 CE Marking Certification by TUV for grades of EN 10025 (for export requirements)

Plate Product Applications

Essar Steels product basket covers a wide spectrum of grades, starting from plain Carbon Mild Steel Grades to Ultra High-Strength quenched and Tempered Alloy steels. Some typical product applications are as follows: Line Pipe Manufacturing Ship Building Yellow Goods & Mining Equipment Industry Pressure Vessels & Boiler Manufacturing Construction and Infrastructure Railway Wagon Industry Wind Tubular Tower Industry Defence Industry Engineering Equipment

Essar Steel's Plate Product Details

Dimensions Thickness: Width: Length: Unit weight: 5mm to 150mm 900mm to 4,900mm 3,000mm to 25,000mm Max. 26 Tonnes

Tolerance
Plate products will be produced as per International Specifications

Essar's Assurance
Dedicated Application Engineering Department manned by technical experts & specialists and backed by quality and R&D professionals One-stop steel solutions for all construction requirements Customized products On-time delivery Adequate & prompt after-sales service

Essar House, 11, K. K. Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai - 400034 Website: www.essarsteel.com, E-mail: steel@essar.com