MAHARASHTRA STEELS, a new com-pany, is establishing a mini-steel plant in a notified 'backward* area of Buland-shahr in UP, some 15 miles from Delhi. The annual installed capacity of the steel ingot easting plant on a dO-tonne arc melting furnace will be 18,000 tonnes. Manufacture is planned presently of mild steel ingots in billet size by con-ventional bottom-pouring method.