- Business
- Coal India Limited, along with its numerous subsidiaries, stands as a global leader in coal extraction and distribution across India. The company delivers coking coal, essential for steel production and various metallurgical applications, alongside semi-coking coal which serves as a blending agent in these demanding industrial sectors. It also supplies thermal grade non-coking coal, primarily fueling power generation, and supports other vital industries such as cement, fertilizer, glass, ceramics, paper, and chemicals, in addition to general heating requirements. Furthermore, Coal India offers beneficiated and washed variants of non-coking coal for enhanced power generation and use in cement and sponge iron facilities. Its product portfolio extends to middlings, utilized by power plants, domestic fuel producers, and brick manufacturers, as well as rejects, which find purpose in fluidized bed combustion boilers for electricity, road construction, and briquette manufacturing. The organization is actively diversifying its operations, venturing into critical minerals exploration, renewable energy projects including solar and wind power, and developing coal gasification initiatives like a coal-to-methanol plant. It maintains a formidable presence with hundreds of mines across eight Indian states and a foreign subsidiary in Mozambique, significantly contributing to India’s energy security by meeting a substantial portion of the nation’s primary commercial energy needs. Incorporated in 1973, with its main corporate office situated in Kolkata, India, Coal India Limited operates as a 'Maharatna' public sector undertaking under the administrative oversight of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India.