https://theprint.in/opinion/5000-yr-old-industrial-hub-binjor-excavation-shatterindian-manufacturing/2050794/

January 2025

February 2025

India emerges as a global export hub, shipments expand to 65 countries - Nissan

India is gradually becoming a manufacturing hub for many big brands.

Indian Steel Output Touches 150 Million Tonnes / Year

With the January 2025 data from https://worldsteel.org/media/press-releases/2025/january-2025-crude-steel-production/ , it is official - India hit 150MT of steel output for a 12 month period (Feb 2024 - Jan 2025).
Jan-Dec 2024 was just under this mark, at 149.60MT, but the first month of 2025 saw this milestone officially.
India is the only third country ever to hit this milestone. Of these only two of them still remain. Listed by country and year achieved:
USSR : 1988
China : 2001
India : 2025
What about the US ? Japan ? Germany ? UK ? Not even during the peak of the world wars and post war boom years ?
No. The US maximum was 139MT in 1973 at the peak of the steel boom. Japan peaked at 125MT a year later.

India wasn't always a major steel producer. In fact it only produced 25MT at the turn of the century. It now produces 6X that figure 25 years later.

India has only a third of US and Chinese land area. There's a more limited amount space to build stuff in.

Within those constraints, it is by a distance the second largest producer of several major core items from steel to cement to aluminium.

Unlike China, a major part of whose core sector output feeds an export engine and is therefore essentially 'offshored' steel production, India is not such a major manufactured goods exporter.

Rather, the growth in steel output - especially the dramatic rise in the 2020s - is a proxy for the intensity of the infrastructure and manufacturing growth that is currently happening.

With a likely 160MT this year, India looks set to cross 200MT in steel output before the end of the decade.

World's 2nd largest mobile manufacturer

From 2 units in 2014 to 300+ operational units today.
99.2% of mobile phones sold in India are now locally manufactured.
Manufacturing value: ₹4,22,000 Cr;
Exports: ₹1,29,000 Cr (2024).
‘Make in India’ boosted production of chargers, battery packs, camera & display modules.
India is now focusing on semiconductor chips & advanced components to deepen the manufacturing value chain.

April 2025

India's crude steel capacity has officially crossed the 200 million

compounded annual growth rate of 7%