Primetals Technologies strengthens long-term partnership with JSW Steel in India
Primetals Technologies has significantly deepened its long-term technology and project partnership with JSW Steel through two engagements in India. The first is the successful commissioning of a new steelmaking complex at JSW Vijayanagar Metallic Limited’s (JVML’s) Toranagallu plant in Karnataka, and the second is a new order to supply two large pelletising plants at JSW Steel’s Paradeep facility in Odisha. Across both projects, Primetals Technologies is delivering comprehensive plant design, process equipment, automation solutions and advisory services.
Primetals Technologies deepens its partnership with JSW Steel in India, commissioning a new meltshop and supplying two 8mtpa pelletising plants.
Primetals Technologies has successfully started up a new melt shop and two continuous casters at JVML’s facility in Toranagallu, Karnataka. The scope of supply included two 350-ton LD (BOF) converters, primary dedusting systems, two 350-ton ladle furnaces, secondary dedusting for the entire meltshop, and two 2-strand continuous casters, along with comprehensive Level 1 and Level 2 automation for the converters, ladle furnaces, and casters.
The first converter, commissioned in December 2024, achieved an exceptionally fast ramp-up, reaching more than 20 heats per day by the end of the commissioning month. Primetals Technologies has received the final acceptance certificate (FAC) for the first converter, ladle furnace no.1 and caster no.1.
The second converter, commissioned in August 2025, achieved an even faster ramp-up, reaching more than 20 heats per day by the sixth day after commissioning. The FAC was received for the second converter, ladle furnace no.2, and caster no.2.
The two continuous slab casters, each with two strands, produce slabs with widths ranging from 900 to 150mm and thicknesses of 220 or 260mm. They handle steel grades ranging from ultra-low-carbon to high-carbon, including deep-drawing, structural, peritectic, and HSLA grades, as well as microalloyed and low-alloy steels, strip grades and high-silicon electrical steel.
JSW Steel has also placed an order with Primetals Technologies for two 8mtpa pelletising plants at its Paradeep facility in Odisha. Primetals Technologies is responsible for complete plant design, engineering services, key process equipment, complete process automation, and advisory services for construction and implementation.
The plant concept is based on a 816 m² induration furnace, which will serve as the basis for a standardised pellet plant model for future capacity expansions at Paradeep and other JSW Steel production sites. Together, the two plants will deliver 16mtpa of pellet production capacity, directly supporting JSW Steel’s rapid capacity expansion program.