| 46 | SPECIAL FEATURE: JSP JSP endeavours to strengthen India’s industrial base through infrastructure development and sustainable initiatives Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) is an Indian industrial powerhouse with a dominant presence in the steel, mining and infrastructure sectors. With more than threedecade-long illustrious history, JSP is continuously innovating and scaling its capacity utilisations and efficiencies towards creating a selfreliant India. Led by Mr Naveen Jindal, the company produces best-inclass, cost-effective steel through backward and forward integration. It is undertaking ambitious expansion plans and aims to be known as one of the most efficient, innovative, steelmakers in the world. JSP’s business operations span the states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in India and across multiple global destinations including Australia, Africa and the Middle East. JSP has a steel-making capacity of 9.6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). JSP’s captive iron ore mines at Tensa and Kasia in Odisha, have a production capacity of 3.11 MTPA and 7.5 MTPA respectively. JSP has a unique product portfolio that caters to markets across the steel value chain. JSP has pioneered the production of Hot Rolled Parallel Flange Beams and Columns in the country. The company also introduced the world’s longest 121-metre-long rails in the country and is the first to manufacture Head-Hardened Rails for high-speed trains and metros in India. The company’s plate mill at Angul is capable of producing 5-meter-wide plates – the widest in the world. JSP manufactures high-strength Jindal Panther TMT Rebars equipped to withstand shock loading and cyclic loading conditions, making them an ideal choice for buildings in high seismic JSP: Innovating for a self-reliant India Plate Mill, Angul | 47 | footprint. JSP is working aggressively to become carbon net zero at an accelerated pace. JSP has been rated as the secondhighest value creator in the world between 2005 and 2009 by the Boston Consulting Group and has also figured in the Forbes Asia list of Fab 50 companies. The company was featured in the Economic Times Sustainable Organisations 2022 list recently. We are a signatory to the World Steel Sustainable Development Charter- 2015, and also a Climate Action member with the World Steel Association. The company strives to build a strong and lasting relationship with the stakeholders, make social and environmental investments to make our operations energy efficient and completely ecofriendly and continue to operate with full transparency and accountability. The company endeavours to strengthen India’s industrial base by aiding infrastructural development, and through sustainable development initiatives. It deploys its resources to improve infrastructure, education, health, water, sanitation, and environment etc. around its areas of operations, towards improving the quality of life of the communities. • zones. Many iconic megastructures across India bear testament to our product quality and national commitment. The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals of JSP are aligned with India’s goals. JSP has been operating within a well-defined ESG framework under which it plans to be one of the lowest carbon-dioxide (C02) emitting steel companies in the world within this decade. JSP is the first and only steel maker in India to have commissioned a Coal Gasification Plant (CGP) in 2014 which helps in eco-friendly steel production with a lower carbon DRI Plant, Angul Overview of JSP Angul Plant & Township
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