Kalinga Iron Works a unit of Corporation produces quality foundry grade pig iron of 1,40,000 MT & Cast Iron spun pipes of 31,200 MT. Salient features of the unit are as follow :-
Year of establishment - Pig Iron Division 1963 Cast Iron Division 1985
INFRASTRUCTURE :
(i) Land - 570 Acres (ii) Pland Machiner. Khow how - M/s. Fried Krupp. Germany. Equipment supplied by - Germany
MAJOR PLANT AND MACHINERY :
(i) 4 Nos. of low shaft Furnace (ii) T.G. Set 4 Nos. of 4 MW capacity each (iii) Casting unit having a induction furnace, Anealing furnace, centrifugal casting machine 5 nos.
CAPTIVE MINE : (IRON & MANGANESE ORE)
Area - 192.81 Hectores Estimated depost iron ore - 18 Million MT. Manganese ore - 3 Million MT
MODERNISATION :
Furnace No.1 having capacity of 30,000 MT is being modernised with Chinese technology for increasing capacity to 56,000 MT and reducing coke consumption to 850 kg per MT of Pig Iron produced.
OPPORTUNITY :
Possibility of manufacturer steel, special steel mainly in semis utilising the mineral resources near Barbil and existing infrastructure factories in KIW.
Casting unit for automobile industries with automatic process as a measure of forwarded integration and value addition.
Production of D.I. Pipe unit in Joint Venture with technology transfer.
Coke Oven Plant in Joint Venture (Coal linkange, mining lease can be arranged)