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Saturday, Mar 04, 2006

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Tata Steel's record salable steel output

Special Correspondent

KOLKATA: Tata Steel has made a new record in salable steel production with an output of 4.11 million tonnes of hot metal on March 2. Increased finished steel production, from the upgraded hot strip mill and the recently commissioned new bar mill under the one million tonne expansion programme made this possible.

All the major facilities of the one million tonne expansion project like revamping of G blast furnace, upgradation of various facilities of steel melting shops, reheating furnaces of hot strip mill and commissioning of the six lakh tonnes new bar mill have started yielding results, says a release.

These achievements come at a time when Tata Steel was striving to become a global steel enterprise. It now had an 8.7 million tonne capacity with its recent takeover of Millenium Steel in Thailand (1.7 million tonnes) NatSteel in Singapore (two million tonnes) and the Jamshedpur plant with a five million tonnes capacity. While this is proposed to be increased to 6.8 million tonnes, greenfield projects were proposed at Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Kalinganagar. It was also planning gas-based projects in Bangladesh and Iran, the release added.

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