Nov. 11, 2021 - JSW Steel witnessed a 6% rise in the Crude Steel production for October 2021 to 14.25 lakh tonnes on a standalone basis compared to the production of 13.38 lakh tonnes in the same month a year ago.

The company posted a 6% rise on a month-on-month basis as well. In September this year, crude steel production stood at 13.43 lakh tonnes.

In October 2021, from the total, production of 10.45 lakh tonnes was in rolled products (flat) up by 7% yoy. While 3.34 lakh tonnes were produced in long rolled product higher by 11% yoy.

The average capacity utilisation for the month was 95%.

JSW Steel said that the crude steel/pig iron production from the phase II expansion project during October 2021 was considered as trial production and not forming part of the above production numbers.