This milestone reaffirms the Company's ability to execute world-class industrial projects with speed, precision, and an unwavering commitment to operational excellence — consistent with its track record of delivering the first pellet plant and the 85-kilometre iron ore slurry pipeline at the same site in June 2025.

With this commissioning, Lloyds Metals and Energy now operates two pellet plants at Konsari with a combined own capacity of 8 MTPA, without accounting for the Company's strategic investments in (MRPPL) and (BRPL). The existing pellet plant of 4 MTPA has reached 100% capacity utilisation.

The pellet plant draws its feedstock directly from the Company's captive, low-alumina iron ore mines at Surjagarh, Gadchiroli, seamlessly transported via the 85-kilometre iron ore slurry pipeline commissioned in June 2025. The low alumina content of LMEL's captive ore enables the production of premium-grade pellets that command a pricing premium in domestic and export markets.

This commissioning is a strategic cornerstone in LMEL's journey to build an integrated, end-to-end steel value chain.