Steel Insights - January 2015

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NMDC: A mine of opportunities Steel Insights explores how NMDC is gearing up to meet the requirements of iron ore by enhancing production capabilities at its existing mines and opening up new ones. In a free-wheeling interview, Narendra Kothari, CMD, sounds confident of delivering the goods and achieving the targets. To put it in his own words: “I like to take challenges in a positive way…”
The edition also takes a look at the Rs.6,000-crore refractory industry. Because it serves an industry whose market size is much larger, refractory-makers lose the negotiating edge, says Dr A K Chattopadhyay, Technical Advisor to Chairman, TRL Krosaki Refractories.
The spotlight also turns on M&M Executive Director Pawan Goenka who divulges why the auto major lost marketshare and Amitabh S Mudgal, President, Marketing & Corporate Affairs, Monnet Ispat & Energy, who speaks about his expectations from the coal block e-auctions.
Also watch out for our regular sections on coking coal prices, ferro alloys and corporates.