JSW Steel wins Prime Minister’s Trophy for excellence in performance

JSW Steel, India’s leading steel manufacturer has won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Trophy for excellence in performance for the year 2012-13. The trophy will be awarded to the company’s Vijayanagar plant, situated in Karnataka, for being the best integrated steel plant in the country based on overall performance and different parameters. JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar facility is the first integrated steel plant in the country to produce 10 million tonnes of steel from a single location. The evaluation for the award is done by a panel of judges comprising technologists, economists, consumers of steel and workers’ representatives on a set of criteria covering operational, financial, market, export, quality, customer satisfaction, environment and human resource related parameters. JSW Steel is part of the JSW group which, in turn, is a part of the O P Jindal group. JSW Steel is one of the largest steel manufacturing companies in India having units in Karnataka and Maharashtra producing crude steel, long steel and flat steel products.