After securing land at Haldia in West Bengal for a new rolled steel plant, Chinese steel giant Sinosteel is also planning two further plants, one in West Bengal and the other in Jharkhand.
In West Bengal Sinosteel India has identified land in Kharagpur, where it plans to put up a steel plant in joint venture with an Indian steel maker and a larger plant in Jharkand, for which it had signed an MoU with the Jharkhand government in 2007.
The Jharkand plant is a 2-million tonne integrated steel plant which can be scaled up to 5 million tonnes and is likely to be built in the Silli-Chandil area near Ranchi.
Sinosteel is eyeing about 300 million tonne of iron ore reserves in the area, for which it will apply for a mining lease.
Sinosteel India, which commenced ore exports in 2005, is already the largest foreign exporter of iron ore from India and exports to its parent in China. Last year it exported 11 million tonnes of ore.
Wth an annual turnover of $16-billion, Sinosteel is the second largest steel company in China.
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