NEW DELHI, OCT 4: Asia’s first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel is set to commission the first phase of its Kalinganagar plant, where it has invested Rs 22,000 crore so far, in the next fiscal.
The Kalinganagar project at Jajpur district in Odisha, being set up in two modules of 3 million tonnes each, would roll out high-end flat products. It is the largest single location greenfield steel project in India having a rated capacity of 3 million tonne per annum in the first phase.
“We have already started commissioning some of the facilities. So, over the next few months all the facilities will get commissioned. Our guidance has been next to this financial year so we stick by the guidance,” Tata Steel Managing Director T V Narendran said.
Narendran said so far the company has spent about Rs 22,000 crore on its greenfield project.
The first phase of the facility to be set up at a total investment of Rs 25,000 crore saw commencement of coke production from its coke ovens last month.
Various units of the plant will start commercial production sequentially. In the first phase, the steel plant will have two Coke Oven battery, each comprising 88 ovens and having a gross coke production capacity of 1.5 MTPA.
During the first phase, the blast furnace will have a capacity of 3.3 MTPA of hot metal while the Sinter plant will have a capacity of 4.91 MTPA. The Steel Melting Shop and the Hot Strip Mill will have capacity of 4.1 MTPA and 3.5 MTPA, respectively.
