Located on the west coast of India, the plant has a jetty with a capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum. This provides the unit with logistical advantages in importing raw materials and savings on freight cost. The unit is well connected through rail, road and sea and has given the JSW Steel a strategic presence in western India.

The Dolvi plant caters to several industries including automotive, projects and construction, machinery, LPG cylinder-makers, cold rollers, oil and gas sector and consumer durables.

Unique features

  • The Dolvi plant is the first in India to adopt a combination of Conarc technology for steelmaking and compact strip production (CSP) for producing hot rolled coils. The main feature of CSP is thin slab casting.
  • It can produce coils with thickness as low as 1.2 mm.
  • HR coils produced at Dolvi are feed material for the two JSW Steel cold rolling and downstream facilities at Vasind and Tarapur.

Plant info

The Dolvi unit features a sponge iron plant (1.6 million tonnes per annum), a blast furnace, a sinter plant, a hot strip mill (3.3 million tonnes), an oxygen plant and a lime calcining plant.

The plant uses a combination of Conarc and CSP processes to produce hot rolled coils. Conarc combines two traditional methods - making steel using solid charge like steel scrap, pig iron or sponge iron as well as making steel through the blast furnace route. This provides the unit with the flexibility of using any combination of solid charge and liquid hot metal. It chooses feed mix depending on market demands.

Quality certification

Apart from an internal quality management system, the unit has applied for accreditation from National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories.

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