Diversified global industrial company Harsco Corporation began its previously announced multi-year contract to provide onsite material processing services to India’s largest stainless steel producer, Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL).
The project at JSL’s all-new production facility in the growing steel-producing area of Jajpur, Odisha, marks Harsco’s fifth major steel mill services site in India and its first serving India’s stainless sector. Harsco’s services include specialised process technologies for recovering metal from stainless steel slag co-products. “From 1MTPA of stainless steel production, we used to lose 5000t to 6000t of metal embedded in slag”, said JSL Unit Head, S. K. Agrawal. “With this new set-up, Harsco will handle all slag, treat it to recover metal and generate a metal-free slag.”
Photo courtesy of Harsco Metals Group Limited
The metal content recovered by Harsco is immediately available for reuse in the production of new steel, while Harsco continues to develop a number of commercial products from the residual slag material. Harsco’s stainless steel slag wet milling plant for the JSL Jajpur project was fully designed and detailed in-house, drawing upon Harsco’s global design office in India for engineering best practices and design standards.
