Essar Steel, on Thursday said it has received an order from Mazagoan Dock (MDL) to supply 13,000-tonnes of heavy plates to build ships for defence.

Essar’s plate products have now been approved by the Indian Navy and the company has received an order from Mazagoan Dock (MDL) to supply 13,000-tonnes of heavy plates to build state-of-the-art ships for defence, the company said in a statement.

Essar Steel’s plate mill became the first primer plate producer in the country to be recognised for indigenous development of steel for building ships for the Indian Navy.

Set up at a cost of around Rs 2,000-crore, the plate mill has an annual production capacity of 1.5—million tonnes.

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