MIDREX® Plant with 4th Quarter Anniversary

Midrex is known for designing, engineering, and servicing reliable direct reduction plants, as well as for making certain that these plants have long and successful operating lives. This issue of Direct From Midrex recognizes JSW Steel (Dolvi).

JSW (Dolvi)

JSW (Dolvi) was started up 30 years ago in 4Q.

LOCATION: Dolvi, Mahasrashtra, India

PRODUCT: CDRI

RATED CAPACITY: 1.0 M t/y

JSW Steel’s DR plant handily exceeded its rated capacity in 2023 and operated 8198 hours. The plant has averaged 8044 hours of operation per year since its initial start-up in 1994, and 8149 hours per year in the last 8 years. Approximately 10% of its energy input came from COG injected to the shaft furnace to reduce natural gas consumption.

The MIDREX Plant is part of a 10 Mt/y integrated steel works located on the west coast of India in Maharashtra State. JSW Steel’s Dolvi Works produces hot rolled coils for use in automotive and industrial products and consumer durables.

JSW Steel has a strategic collaboration with JFE Steel of Japan and is the only Indian company to be ranked among the top 15 global steel producers by World Steel Dynamics for 13 consecutive years since 2008.

Read more about JSW Steel (Dolvi) at: www.jswsteel.in/dolvi-works