What makes steel stronger.
Ferro manganese and silico manganese, produced at Balaghat across five furnaces — one of the largest and most established alloy operations in Madhya Pradesh and Central India.
Built beside the ore, and built with its own power.
Most of India's alloy capacity sits near the ports, in West Bengal and the south, because so much ore is imported and so much finished product is shipped out. Ours sits in Central India, next to the mine that feeds it.
The first unit was established in 2007 with a captive power plant — Madhya Pradesh was short of power, and Balaghat's rice mills produced husk as waste, so the plant was designed to burn it. Production began in 2009. A second unit followed in 2017, and in 2024 three further furnaces were added under a third unit.
Installed capacity now stands at 22.5 MVA of newer capacity alongside 12 MVA of earlier capacity — 33 to 35 MVA in total, running ferro manganese and silico manganese.
Grades we produce.
Material is crushed, sized and graded to the buyer's specification before packing and dispatch.
| Product | Grades | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Silico manganese | 60/15 – 70/15 | The full commercial range, sized and graded to requirement. |
| Ferro manganese | 70, 72, 75 | Supplied to domestic mills and export buyers. |
| Low-carbon silico manganese | On specification | For applications where carbon content is constrained. |
| Special grades | Low B, low P, low S | Low boron, low phosphorus and low sulphur material for specialised steel manufacturing. |
| Briquettes & aggregates | — | Produced for better utilisation of the full range of ore grades. |
Working to a specification we have not listed? Tell us what the steel has to do and we will tell you honestly whether we can make it.
Our own ore, and the world's.
The mine supplies the plant, but not exclusively. Manganese ore is a global trade, and blending imported ore with our own lets us hit grades and control cost in a way a captive-only operation cannot.
We import from South Africa, Gabon and Australia, process it alongside our own production, and grade the output for the market it is going to.
- Ram Rama mine
- South Africa
- Gabon
- Australia
Japan taught us how to test.
We started buying ore from Japan. In the course of those conversations it emerged that we could sell them the finished product — and Japanese quality control is unforgiving.
Meeting their requirement meant building a system: every grade of ore we buy and every grade we produce is sampled, analysed, and assessed against what the shipment actually calls for. That regime now applies to everything we make, not only to what goes to Japan.
It has since become a long-term agreement supplying a Japanese company through the year — and a direction of travel for our quality and our production capacity generally.
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ISO certified
Processes, quality, and health and safety monitoring.
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BIS certified
Bureau of Indian Standards certification for the material we produce, displayed on manufacture and sale.
Domestic mills and export buyers.
Our location kept us domestic for years. As China stepped back from the export trade and India stepped into it, we went with the demand.
Export destinations
- Japan
- South Korea
- Bangladesh
- South East Asia
- UAE
- Oman
- Saudi Arabia
- Iran
- Africa
- Europe
- The Americas
Growth ahead
- Alloy capacity from 50,000–60,000 tonnes towards 150,000 tonnes per annum.
- New ferro alloy furnaces planned at a new location, with facilities for further value addition.
- Mine capacity expanding from 100,000 to 250,000 tonnes per annum to feed it.
Ask for a quotation.
Tell us the grade, the quantity and the destination. Ours is a B2B trade and we answer directly.