NMDC signed Agreement for Execution of Sinter Plant Complex

NMDC Limited on 7 March 2011 signed the contract agreement with the consortium comprising M/s. SVAI, Austria, SVAI India and M/s. Nagarjuna Construction Company for turnkey execution of a 460m2 sinter plant complex. This is the first contract amongst the nine main technological packages for the 3.0 MT Integrated Steel Plant at Nagarnar. The sinter plant on competition will cater to 80% of the ferrous feed to the blast furnace and will be of state-of-art design.

Sinter is the prepared feed made out of iron ore fines which otherwise cannot be used. Use of sinter in blast furnace saves coke rate and increases production serves as means to use iron ore fines generated in mining process. 460m2 sinter plant would be the fastest commissioned steel plant either in green field or brown field in India.