Bhubaneswar: Tata Steel, which has inaugurated its Kalinganagar plant in Odisha last November, today said it intends to commence commercial steel production from the next fiscal. The Kalinganagar plant has a capacity of six million tonne per annum (mtpa) and in the first phase, three mtpa steel would be produced.
“We would start production from the Kalinganagar plant in the next (financial) year”, said T V Narendran, managing director (India & South East Asia), Tata Steel. On Tata Steel’s Gopalpur SEZ (Special Economic Zone), he said, “We are trying to bring in overseas investors for the project”. Tata Steel recently held roadshows in Tel Aviv and London to woo foreign investors for the Gopalpur industrial park where it is the anchor tenant.
Tata Steel has commissioned various components of the Kalinganagar steel facility like coke oven plant and sinter unit. The blast furnace and steel melting shop (SMS) are expected to be fully commissioned by March this year. Commercial production would take off from the next fiscal.
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