VISA Special Steel Limited is undertaking a brownfield expansion of its integrated steel plant located within the Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex, Village Jakhapura, Tehsil Dangadi, District Jajpur, Odisha, entirely within the existing 50.58 hectare plant premises with no additional land required. The expansion involves enhancing blast furnace hot metal/pig iron capacity from 215,000 TPA to 430,000 TPA, adding a new 659,000 TPA sinter plant to produce sponge iron feedstock, and installing a 340 TPD air separation unit to supply oxygen and nitrogen gases for process use, while the existing DRI plant (300,000 TPA), rolling mill (500,000 TPA) and SMS plant (500,000 TPA) capacities remain unchanged. The total project cost is estimated at ₹2,534.47 crore, comprising ₹2,193.89 crore for the existing project and ₹340.58 crore for the proposed expansion component. The expansion is expected to generate about 30 permanent and 60,000 man-days of temporary employment during the construction phase, with permanent operational employment rising from 654 to 825 personnel. Typical equipment scope for such an expansion would include new sinter strand and windbox systems, sinter cooler and crusher-screening circuits, cryogenic air separation columns with compressors and gas storage/distribution pipelines, along with associated dust extraction, gas cleaning and pollution control systems integrated with the existing blast furnace, DRI, rolling mill and SMS operations. The proposal has been granted Standard Terms of Reference by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and is proceeding through the environmental appraisal process ahead of construction.