Finnish mining equipment maker Metso Outotec has secured another order in India for an iron ore grate kiln pellet plant, this time for a plant operated by Jindal Steel Odisha in the east of the country.

Metso Outotec said the plant is located in the industrial city of Angul, in eastern India. The value of the order is €30 million (US$33 million), and it has been booked in Metals' Q1/2022 orders received.

Metso Outotec's scope of delivery consists of engineering and the supply of major equipment, including the traveling grate, rotary kiln, and annular cooler. The plant will produce six million tons of iron ore pellets per year. This is Metso Outotec's second pellet plant order from JSOL in the past 12 months. The first grate kiln pellet plant is currently being installed at the same location by Metso Outotec and JSOL.

"Metso Outotec and JSPL have a strong history of working together in the field of iron ore pelletizing. We have previously worked with JSPL in 2006 and 2012 for the deliveries of two traveling grate pelletizing plants to Barbil, India. We're very pleased to be able to supply JSOL with two grate kiln pelletizing plants for their Angul location. Metso Outotec is the only equipment manufacturer to offer both the traveling grate and grate kiln technologies for indurating iron ore pellets; each technology offers unique advantages. With these technologies, JSPL will be a global leader in their ability to efficiently produce of a variety of world-class pellet products," says Chris Urban, vice president, Heat Transfer Products at Metso Outotec.

The company had said on 14 March that it would deliver and deploy its travelling grate pelletising technology to be integrated with a 432 m2 indurating machine located in RPCL's 3.2 mtpy pellet facility in Sandur, Karnataka.

Travelling grate pelletizing plant is an induration technology for iron ore pellet production for a wide range of plant capacities. Travelling grate sinter plant reduces off-gas volumes and the emission of hazardous pollutants while reducing fuel consumption. 

Pelletizing also enables cheaper raw materials to be used in the smelter due to uniform agglomerated ore.