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What are mini steel plants?
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Mini Steel plants generally use ferrous scrap, pig iron or sponge iron as their raw material. They work through electric furnaces and have a capacity from 10,000 tonnes to about 5 lakh tonnes per year.
Their period of construction and gestation is also short. They are distributed in different parts of the country particularly in areas away from the integrated steel plants.
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