'Xindia Steels, a joint venture between Manasara Group and Xinxing Heavy Machinery, China is setting up a 1.2 million tpa integrated steel plant in Karnataka. The proposed plant will have facilities such as rolling mills, billet casters, basic oxygen furnaces, pipe plant, blast furnace, sinter & pellet plants, beneficiation plant, coke plant and power plant. As of March 2013, the project is in the planning stage.