JSW Steel crude steel output grows 8 percent to 14.4 lakh tonne in Oct

JSW Steel Thursday said its crude steel output grew 7.7 per cent to 14.47 lakh tonne during October 2018. The Sajjan Jindal-led company had produced 13.43 LT crude steel in October 2017, it said in a statement. During last month, there was a rise of 3.4 per cent in production of flat rolled products at 10.11 LT as against 9.77 LT in October 2017, it said. JSW Steel is a part of the diversified USD 13 billion JSW Group, which has a presence in steel, energy, infrastructurecement, ventures and sports. It is the leading integrated steel company with an installed steel-making capacity of 18 million tonne per annum (MTPA) in India.   JSW Steel's plant at Vijayanagar in Karnataka is the largest single location steel producing facility in the country with a capacity of 12 MTPA.