India Steel
07 Oct 2023 3 mins Download PDF
India Steel
- Indian steel companies plan to raise prices of various grades of the alloy due to rising import costs of coking coal.
- Australia accounts for over 50% of its coking coal imports of around 55-60 million metric tonne a year.
- India also meets its coking coal requirements by importing from Russia and the United States.
- India surpassed Japan as the second largest steel producer in 2019 and is the 2nd largest consumer of finished steel (China is the largest producer of steel accounting for 54% of the world steel production in 2022).
- There are two types of steel plants - mini steel plants and integrated steel plants.
- About 50% of the country's steel is produced by medium and small enterprises.
- In the year 2022-23, India witnessed the export of 72 million tonnes (MT) of finished steel, while importing around 6 MT.
- Green steel: it is the steel manufactured by using renewable sources such as renewable or low-carbon energy sources such as hydrogen, coal gasification or electricity instead of traditional carbon-intensive manufacturing route of coal-fired plants.
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