Goa Carbon Limited, part of the Dempo Group with turnover exceeding US $100 million, has resumed operations at Paradeep Unit located at Village Udayabata, Paradeepgarh, District Jagatsinghpur, Odisha.

The company has lit up the Kiln and after preliminary heat up and commencement of feeding of raw material, normal production is likely to resume shortly.

Goa Carbon Limited is in the business of manufacture and marketing of Calcined Petroleum Coke. The company's calcination plant of 1, 00,000 tpa capacity is located in southern Goa, 40 kms away from the Mormugao port. It has a well-equipped laboratory and quality control systems and procedures.

The Goa plant has the largest mechanical sieving and screening facilities for petcoke in India. The company also has two other plants, at Bilaspur in Chattisgarh and at Paradeep in Orissa. The company is a regular supplier to aluminium smelters, graphite electrode and Titanium Dioxide manufacturers, as well as other users in the metallurgical and chemical industries.

With the quality of Goa Carbon's product being well accepted by the end users, Goa Carbon is firmly established as a leading Indian petcoke calciner.