BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Steel and Mines Raghunath Mohanty said in the Assembly on Tuesday that 36 ancillary industries and 19 downstream units are expected to come up with the commissioning of Posco’s 12 mtpa steel plant near Paradip. To a question from Alekh Kumar Jena (BJD), the minister said the ancillary units included refractory materials, lancing pipes, forged rounds, foundry, steel strapplings, ferro alloys, hard coke, welding electrodes, conveyor belt, belt fasteners, fly ash bricks, calcinated petroleum coke and cotton waste. Among the downstream industries, Mohanty said the State Government had identified units like coal tar lag processing, coke briquettes, cement plants using bottom ash, granulated slag cement plant, steel utensils, sheet metal works, industrial fastener unit and sheet metal works. The State Government has signed a memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Nalco, JSL Ltd, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) and Adhunik Metaliks for setting up industrial clusters. Bhusan Steel’s proposal for a downstream park at Meramandali in Dhenkanal district is under scrutiny of the Government, he added. Nalco had proposed to set up an aluminium downstream park at Angul in a joint venture with the Odisha Industrial Development Corporation (IDCO), he said. The Minister said that notification under Section 4(1) has been issued for acquisition of private land while transfer of government land to the JV company has been approved. JSL Ltd too had signed an MoU for establishment of an industrial park at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district in February 2010 at a cost of ` 704 crore. JSPL too wanted to set up a downstream industrial park in Angul district, he said.
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