India’s Jindal Steel to invest in Lanzatech blast furnace-to-fuel facility

In India, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd is in talks with Lanzatech to implement the company’s unused blast furnace-to-fuel technology as JSPL’s facility in either Angul in Odisha or Raigarh in Chhattisgarh by end of 2015. The deal is meant to be closed within the next three to four months.  When the project comes online, the 150,000 metric tonne facility it will be the second such project in the world, following a pilot project in China. Production could reach 500,000 tonnes by 2018.