Tata Steel Kalinganagar Plant

Tata Steel Kalinganagar honoured at World Economic Forum 2020

Tata Steel Kalinganagar has been honoured at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020 for its recent admittance into the Global Lighthouse Network. The network is a small but growing group of global corporations that are showing leadership in applying fourth industrial revolution technologies to drive financial and operational impact. Tata Steel's CEO & MD T V Narendran, who represented the company at the WEF 2020 held in Davos, accepted the award at the World Economic Forum, a Tata Steel release said. In July 2019, TSK became the first and only Indian manufacturing plant to be included in the WEF's Lighthouse Network, when 10 new factories, including TSK, were added to the Global Lighthouse Network. Tata Steel's IJmuiden plant in the Netherlands is already a member of this network, it said. "It is a proud moment for all of us as Tata Steel Kalinganagar (TSK) joins the prestigious Lighthouse Network of the World Economic Forum. TSK has the distinction of featuring several firsts in the

Tata Steel Kalinganagar misses crude steel output target in FY18

Tata Steel's Kalinganagar unit has missed the steel production target for 2017-18. As against an output target of 2.7 million tonne, the unit has produced 2.5 million tonne crude steel in the last fiscal.The shortfall in steel output is despite the unit achieving hot metal production of 2.9 million tonne against the annual business plan target of 2.85 million tonne.This shows the hot metal to steel conversion process of the plant is yet to settle down to optimal operation level to yield desired result, said an analyst. That is expected of a new plant which faces tethering problems to synchronise and stabilise various units involved in the steel making process, he added.It may be noted the Blast Furnace of the Kalinganagar plant was shut down for about three weeks beginning 29th January because of a technical snag. The loss of production due to the shutdown was estimated at around 0.15 million tonne."Since the downstream operations are integrated to the Blast Furnace, Steel Melting ...

Snag at Tata Steel Kalinganagar plant puts spanner in its output target

The unscheduled shutdown of Blast Furnace at Tata Steel's Kalinganagar plant is set to deprive the unit of achieving its targeted capacity of 3 million tonne this fiscal.The Blast Furnace was shut down because of a technical snag on 29th of last month and would be put back in operation in another week's time. The loss of production due to the shutdown is estimated to be around 0.15 million tonne.Added to the struggle to reach and maintain the monthly average production target of 0.25 million tonne due to the teething problem of a new plant, the total shortfall in targeted output is put at 0.2 to 0.3 million tonne. "We expect to close the year with an output of 2.7 to 2.8 million tonne", said Anand Sen, president, TQM & Steel Business at Tata Steel. he added.In a statement to Business Standard, chief spokesperson of the company, India and South East Asia, Kulvin Suri on Thursday said, "The Blast Furnace at Tata Steel Kalinganagar has been running at its rated capacity. However, ...

Tata Steel plans to beat volatility with wider value-added product basket

A ramp-up in steel capacity at Kalinaganagar helped Tata Steel clock a 6-fold jump in sales in new sub-segments like pre-engineered buildings, construction & projects and oil & gas, in Apr-Sep FY18

Why Tata Steel's Kalinganagar expansion makes good sense

Growing the more profitable integrated India capacities, after restructuring European operations, will boost its consolidated earnings

Tata Steel to enhance Kalinganagar plant by increasing capacity by 5 MT

As part of its long-term strategy to expand in the domestic market, the Tata Steel board today approved a plan for next phase of expansion at Kalinganagar in Odisha. The country's largest steel producer plans to add five million tonne capacity in Odisha taking the company's total domestic steel capacity to 18 million tonne over the next four years.In a BSE filing today, the company said the new expansion plan at Kalinganagar was expected to cost Rs 23,500 crore as it would include investment in raw material expansion, upstream and midstream facilities along with downstream units such as a cold rolling mill.The mode of financing for this second phase expansion at Kalinganagar would be a combination of debt and equity with project expansion expected to be completed in 48 months, informed Tata Steel. Currently, Tata Steel has a 13 million tonne capacity in India with 10 million tonne coming from Jamshedpur and balance three million from Kalinganagar phase I. The capacity utilisation ...