India Crude Steel output up 4.3% to 8.91 MT in February
India produced 8.914 million tonnes of crude steel in February 2019, up by 4.3 per cent over February 2018, and was down by 2.9 per cent over January 2019, according to a report by the Joint Plant Committee (JPC), which comes under the Ministry of Steel.
The domestic crude steel production had stood at 8.54 million tonnes during February 2018.
During February this year, the production of hot metal was 12.1 per cent higher at 6.09 million tonnes, against 5.43 million tonnes in February 2018.
"Hot metal production in February 2019 was up by 12.1 per cent over February 2018 and was down by 4.4 per cent over January 2019," the report said.
The output of pig iron grew 16.9 per cent to nearly 5,26,000 tonne in February, compared with about 4,50,000 tonne in the same month a year ago.
"Pig iron production stood at 0.526 million tonnes in February 2019, up by 16.9 per cent over February 2018 and was down by 1.9 per cent over January 2019," it added.
India has set an ambitious target of increasing its crude steel production capacity to 300 million tonne by 2030-31.
