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that IMR is supplier of coking coal, that is reductant to the Indian market, IMR is in the process of development
of coking coal mine in Indonesia and they have a plan to supply India from that mine. As the steel industry is a
growing industry in India and so also ferroalloys, IMR has plan to enter in to this market whether it is trading or
acquisition

Dr. Bhoi explained very elaborately the job done and being done at IMMt, Bhubaneswar on production of ferro
nickel from cOB and also production of ferromanganese from low grade manganese ore. he also mentioned
that in another 2 to 3 months’ time IMMt is going to produce ferronickel at 100 Kg scale. his talk was very much
appreciated by the chairman and the audience..

Mr. Ritolia and Mr. Debraj Mukherjee

Mr. Ritolia then requested Mr. Debraj Mukherjee to give his views on the road blocks for this ferroalloy industry,
may be from environmental factors or any other issues and the remedies to be taken so that it goes unhindered.
Mr. Mukherjee mentioned the cO2 emission per tonne of metal (be it steel or stainless steel) is 2 to 4 ton per tonne
of metal. In case of ferrochrome they emit 3.5-3.7 ton of cO2 per tonne of production. But the recent technology
of Outotec for waste heat utilization mentioned taht unburtnt CO can be utilized in the sintering and pre-heating
of the ore and can be used for pre-reduction. If those technology is used then with the current practices also cO2
emission can be reduced per tonne of ferrochrome. then by increase the scrap in the stainless steel we can also
reduce the cO2 emission per tonne of stainless steel production. europe is talking about implementation of carbon
tax which is going to be implemented very soon and producers have to pay for it if we want to sell our products
there. therefore, the future actually is of renewable source of energy which requires a lot of investment. Bank
and financial institutes should come forward and help us to set up renewable sources of energy generation. the
fossil fuel which is being used as reductant those fossil fuels can be replaced by bio-mass. the challenge for bio-
mass is the animal and agriculture wastes are distributed all over the places and having a good logistic system of
collecting and converting them to a fuel is a big challenge and it has to be economical as well. Green hydrogen
which is environmental friendly should be used as a reductant. Nippon Steel is trying to implement technology that
reduces carbon emission to support their vision of carbon neutral by 2050. tata Steel R&D is also working in that

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