Recently, Tata Steel had commenced production of Tata Ferroshots at its Kalinganagar steel plant. The company has commercially launched this product in India for the 1st time. It is anticipated that this product will be a game changer in the metallic industry.
Basically, Tata Ferroshots is granulated Pig iron or iron droplets solidified by cooling in water.
How it is different from Pig iron
Tata Ferroshots has better recovery than Pig iron. The main reason is it has low LoI (Loss of Ignition) burning losses, as a result, provides 95-96% crude steel when get melted. Secondly, it is of small size i.e 5-25 mm, thus large surface area, indicating that it consumes less heat when undergoes for melting procedure.
Tata’s last offers were heard at INR 18,500/MT ex-Kalinganagar. However, fresh offers are yet to be opened in days to come.
Current Pig iron offers
| Particulars | Pig Iron | Granulated Pig Iron |
| Size | 300 mm | 5-25 mm |
| Carbon | 3.6-4.3 | 4.4 |
| Phos | 0.15 | 0.12 |
| Silica | 1.24 | – |
| Yield | 0.94 | 0.955 |
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