en.Wedoany.com Reported - JSW Steel Limited announced its production report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026-27 (April to June 2026) on July 9, 2026. Affected by the prolonged shutdown of No. 3 blast furnace at its Vijayanagar plant in Karnataka for capacity upgrade, the company's consolidated crude steel output for the quarter was 6.59 million tons, up 3% year-on-year. Excluding the impact of the blast furnace shutdown, the quarterly output growth would have been approximately 15%.

Domestic operations in India contributed 6.35 million tons of crude steel in the quarter, up 3% year-on-year. Capacity utilization was approximately 94%. The company's subsidiary in Ohio, USA, produced 240,000 tons of crude steel in the quarter, flat compared to the same period last year.

The company stated that No. 3 blast furnace at the Vijayanagar plant resumed hot metal production on June 23, 2026. Additionally, in March 2026, the steel business of Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd was transferred to a joint venture established by JSW Steel and Japan's JFE Steel Corporation through asset sale, with corresponding adjustments made to the data for the same period last year.

The company's current total crude steel capacity is 37.9 million tons per year, with plans to increase it to 54.8 million tons per year over the next four years. Among this, the capacity of the Vijayanagar plant is planned to be expanded from 19.5 million tons per year to approximately 25 million tons per year. According to recent disclosures by the company, it has started investing 163.5 billion rupees in Andhra Pradesh to build an integrated steel project, to be constructed in two phases, with the first phase capacity at 1 million tons per year.