State-of-the-art facilities
Essar Steel has set up a 1.5 MTPA state-of-the-art 5-metre-wide steel plate facility at Hazira to meet the requirements of the Defence sector. The plant has three types of rolling capabilities that include thermo-mechanical controlled rolling, normalised rolling and temperature controlled rolling.

Further, it has two types of heat treatment capabilities—quenching & tempering, and normalising. These capabilities make this mill a versatile mill that is capable of producing any grade of steel for Defence applications. The plate mill is backed by advanced steelmaking facilities and has better control over raw materials through its upstream pellet making facilities.

Essar is known for producing high end clean steel required for various sectors like auto, engineering, white goods, yellow goods, power sector, hydrocarbon sector pipe & tubes and Defence.

Product development
Essar Steel has set up an R&D Centre at Hazira that is approved by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. It has been developing products for the Defence sector for the past seven years, and focuses on application-based product development.

The Defence grade steel developed by the company meets the standards of the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Combat Vehicle R&D Establishment, Directorate of Naval Architecture and Directorate of Naval Design.

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