(JSPL) on Tuesday said its coal gasification-based DRI plant at Angul district in Odisha has resumed operation.
“JSPL’s 1.80 MTPA DRI (direct reduced iron) plant based on coal gasification process has resumed operations in Odisha’s Angul district,” the company said in a filing to BSE.
The plant was not operational for long due to the scarcity of coal. Now Coal India Ltd (CIL) and its arm Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd have started selling coal in adequate quantity, therefore gasification and DRI operations have resumed.
“Our… plants are again working on the full potential on purchased coal,” JSPL MD V R Sharma said. “We are targeting an additional production run-rate of 1.50 million tonnes per year of steel in FY20-21 through CGP (coal gasification process) and DRI route,” Sharma said.
