Essar Steel Minnesota LLC

The Essar group operates a number of world-class assets diversified across the core sectors of energy, metals & mining, infrastructure (comprising ports and EPC businesses) and services (primarily comprising shipping, telecom retail, technology and outsourcing businesses). These assets are controlled by Essar Global Fund Limited, an investment fund managed by its investment manager, Essar Capital Limited. The fund is a global investor and its portfolio companies have combined revenues of US$35 billion. The group employs over 60,000 people across five continents and 29 countries, and has adopted international standards in health, safety, environmental protection and corporate governance.We are committed to innovative growth, through our personal passion, reinforced by a professional mindset, creating value for all those we touch.Essar began as a construction company in 1969 and diversified into manufacturing, services and retail. Over the last four decades, it has grown through strategic global acquisitions and partnerships, or through greenfield and brownfield development projects, capturing new markets and discovering new raw material sources. 

ESML has the flexibility to produce standard, fluxed and direct reduction grade pellets. ESML looks to be one of the lowest cost producers of pellets in North America, due to ore body characteristics of its location area and significant technological improvements since the building of the last pellet plant in the US in the 1970s. ESML is strategically located with multiple access points to a world-class ground transportation infrastructure to serve the North American market, and multiple vessel options for the international seaborne market.