January 25, 2012: Essar Steel India Ltd, with 10 million tons per annum (mtpa) of flat steel production capacity at Hazira, has become India's largest and world's fourth largest single location flat steel producer next only to Baosteel (18.6 mtpa), Posco (18.1 mtpa) and Riva Group (12.9 mtpa), a senior official said.

"We are not only fourth largest, but also the world's largest hot briquetted iron (HBI)/Director Reduced Iron (DRI) producer with a total production capacity of 7 million tons per annum," Essar's CFO Amit Agarwal said.

Among Indian steel producers, JSW has a flat steel production capacity of 8.5 mtpa, Tata Steel has 6.1 mtpa, SAIL's Bhilai Plant has capacity of 5.6 mtpa, while SAIL's Bokaro plant has flat steel production capacity of 4.6 mtpa, he said.

Source: ISMW