The Hindu Business Line : Essar Steel gears up to make materials for auto ind

Essar Steel Ltd has developed its capacity adequately to commercially produce various grades of hot-rolled and cold-rolled materials used in the auto industry. Indicating this here at the Metals Conclave, the company's Vice-President, Mr M. Venkatraman, said that Essar has, in the meantime, installed Skin Pass Mill, Galvanising Mill, Shearing and Slitting Lines to produce high quality products in desired shape and size to meet stringent requirement of automobile body.

In fact, Mr Venkatraman, along with Mr J. K. Tandon, Director (projects) of Essar Steel, has submitted a paper to the conclave suggesting that the demands by the automotive industries to meet the environment concerns such as global warming, CO2 emission etc, require materials for fuel efficiency.

Among the metallic materials, which would meet the conflicting demands of properties required for the auto applications, steel has proved to be the only choice available yet.

At the backdrop of this, Essar Steel has developed adequate facilities and systems using most modern techniques. They said that Essar Steel produced HBI/HOT DRI from Midrex process using high-grade pellets and lumps ore and natural gas. This process gives highly metallised HBI/HOT DRI (92-93 per cent Fe metallic) with low-gauge (5-7 per cent) consistently.

All the parameters of production were controlled within very close tolerance and repetitive results were obtained. Human interface was thus of minimum level to avoid any errors.

It was pointed out that Essar has successfully developed the low carbon EDD and IF steels for panels. The steels are made by careful control carbon during steel making. They said that the company supplied the CRCA steel for making member front crash for INDICA, reinforcement hand-brake-mounting, centre pillar cover R/L for M & M Scorpioand fuel tank for Minidoor, Force Motors.

The steel was successfully formed without wrinkles or cracks under normal die-settings without affecting productivity at customer send.

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