limited type public bse 532657nse ferroalloy industry steel founded 1956 headquarters nagpur maharashtra 1 india key people mr. r k saraf director & md 2 products rolled steel number of employees 18 000 website official website facor sriramnagar the ferro alloys corporation limited facor was floated in 1955 by the house of sarafs and mors to become the first major producer of ferromanganese in india . the year 1956 marked the beginning of the ferro alloys corporation limited at sriramnagar garividi vizianagaram district andhra pradesh . the founder was seth shriman durgaprasadji saraf 1911 1988 . the registered office is at tumsar bhandara district maharashtra . 3 ferroalloys are used as deoxidizers and alloy additives in the steel manufacturing process . the ferromanganese plant started production in 1957 equipped with three furnaces for production of high carbon ferromanganese and ferrosilicon . in 1969 a reduction furnace and a slag furnace were commissioned for production of ferrochrome . the company independently set up a 16 mva furnace in 1981 . facor acquired a small steel plant at nagpur in maharashtra . in 1979 facor developed the technology to produce charge chrome in their own r & d wing . they have established a charge chrome plant at d.p.nagar randia in bhadrak district of orissa in 1983 . it is a 100 % export oriented project with a production capacity of 50 000 tons per annum . facor signed an agreement with marc rich and co. ag switzerland as the sole selling agent of their entire charge chrome output for 10 years . 4 the plants at sriramnagar have facilities for raw material handling metal and slag casting crushing sizing and other ancillaries apart from furnaces for smelting of ferro alloys . the raw materials are manganese ore chromite and quartzite ores with principal elements of manganese chromium and silicon respectively . they are obtained from the andhra pradesh orissa madhya pradesh and bihar states . the ferro alloys produced are high carbon ferro chrome low carbon ferro chrome silico chrome silico manganese and magnesium ferro silicon ferro manganese etc. these alloys are tapped from electric arc furnaces in molten state . they are prepared to the required size from 25 mm to 150 mm and transported to the various steel companies . the furnaces are connected to two stage venturi scrubber systems to maintain a clean environment in and around the production area . facor has been accredited under iso 9001 2000 . 5 the existing manpower at sriramnagar is about 784 regular employees with 107 supervisory personnel besides 1070 contract workmen . in 2003 the charge chrome division along with the mining division in orissa has been demerged as facor steels ltd and the ferro alloys division at garividi as facor alloys ltd. references edit facor steel ltd nagpur . facorsteel.com . retrieved 2010 12 08 . ferroall history ferro alloys corporation ltd company history & profile . economictimes.indiatimes.com . retrieved 2010 12 08 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