Nalwa Sons Investments Ltd

Summary

Jindal Strips promoted by O P Jindal and Associates (incorporated in Nov.70 and became public in 1975) which started with a single plant at Hisar, has now become a multi-plant, multi-location company. It manufactures stainless steel strips at Hisar, wide strip hot and cold-rolled coils from imported slabs at Vasind, and sponge iron at Raigarh. JSL is one of the few companies in the iron and steel industry without any technical collaboration; all its technology is developed in-house. The stainless steel produced by the company is mostly used for utensils, while cold-rolled coils are partially used captively by a group concern for GP/GC sheets and the remaining is sold to the automobile and two-wheeler industry. JSL one of Indias largest stainless steel producers with a market share of 40%.The company came out with an issue of partly convertible debentures in Apr.92 to finance the expansion of capacity to 6,00,000 tpa of sponge iron and 5,00,000 tpa of pig iron. It has also to set up a captive power plant of 45 MVA. Jindal Holdings is a subsidiary of the company. In 1994-95, Brahmputra Capital and Finance Services Pvt. Ltd. became a subsidiary.During the year 1998-99, as per the scheme of arrangement between Jindal Strips and Jindal Steel & Power Ltd(JSPL), the former hived off its Raigarh and Raipur divisons to JSPL. In Dec.99, it placed 5.75% foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) to the international investors for an aggregate amount of USD 30 million. The issue was... Read More