The Ruias-owned Essar Steel's capacity expansion at its Hazira plant is “almost” complete, which will take its total production capacity to 10 million tonnes a year, a senior company official said.

“All the units at Hazira (steel plant) will be commissioned in a month or so... Expansion work at Hazira is almost complete, except for the coke-oven battery, which will be commissioned in 2012,” the Essar Steel CEO, Mr Malay Mukherjee, told PTI.

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