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JSW POSCO Keonjhar

announced

BF–BOF Integrated route · Asia Pacific, India

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JSW POSCO Keonjhar makes steel by the integrated route: iron ore is smelted into liquid hot metal in a blast furnace, then refined into crude steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 18.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized.

Process Route

BFBOF

Timeline

Announced2024
Operating2028

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

18,000

BOF

18,000

Blast Furnace

18,000

Iron Units

BF
unknown BF (1)announced
6,000 ttpawiki
BF
unknown BF (2)announced
12,000 ttpawiki

Steel Units

BOF
unknown BOF (1)announced
6,000 ttpawiki
BOF
unknown BOF (2)announced
12,000 ttpawiki

Steel Products

hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized

Ownership

Owner JSW Steel Ltd; POSCO Holdings Inc

Parent JSW Steel Ltd [100.0%]; POSCO Holdings Inc [100.0%]

State ownership Partial

Country Context

India crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).