Buoyed by its Hazira complex becoming the country's largest single location flat steel maker with 10 million tonne per annum capacity, Essar Steel is set to commission a pellet unit in a week in Odisha to pave the way for setting up of its proposed 6 million tonne integrated steel plant.

"Our proposed 12 million tonne pellet plant is likely to start production in about a week in Odisha's Paradip where we want to replicate ths success story of Hazira complex," Essar Steel India's MD and CEO Dilip Oommen said.