- CEO
- Manobendra Ghoshal
- Full Time Employees
- 289
- Sector
- Retail trade
- Industry
- Internet retail
- Address
- Plot no.CF-18/2 New Delhi WB India 700156
- IPO Date
- Mar 29, 2019
- Business
- MSTC Limited, a Mini Ratna Category-I central public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India, primarily engages in e-commerce services, trading of bulk raw materials, and recycling operations. Incorporated in 1964 and headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, the company operates across India with regional offices and serves diverse sectors including government entities, PSUs, power, telecom, mining, coal, petroleum, and forestry through its core e-commerce platform offering e-auctions, e-sales, e-procurement, e-tenders, and customized software solutions such as forward/reverse auctions, SMRA, Swiss Challenge, and two-stage bidding; specialized services include scrap and surplus sales, power sector procurement, telecom spectrum allocation for 4G/5G, mining lease auctions for major/minor minerals and critical minerals, EXIM portals for petroleum products, online draw systems for LPG/retail fuel distributorships, government subsidy schemes like UDAN and DDUGJY/IPDS, coal block allocations under Shakti Scheme, forest/agricultural produce auctions, and duty scrips management. Its trading division facilitates procurement of industrial raw materials like heavy melting scrap, metallurgical coke, HR coils, naphtha, crude oil, and coking coal on a facilitator model with buyer guarantees, primarily for secondary steel producers and petrochemical industries. Through its joint venture Mahindra MSTC Recycling Private Limited (MMRPL), established in 2016, MSTC operates six registered vehicle scrapping facilities in Noida, Chennai, Indore, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, and Bengaluru, along with 34 collection centers for end-of-life vehicles and white goods recycling into shredded scrap for steel plants. Recent developments include securing a two-year e-auction contract from Coal India Limited in March 2025 for coal and coal products, and the divestment of its wholly-owned subsidiary Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited to Japan's Konoike Transport via a share purchase agreement signed in October 2024 for Rs 320 crore, with the subsidiary ceasing operations effective January 21, 2025.