Tata Steel

Type Industry Founded Founder(s) Headquarters Area served

Public (BSE: 500470) Steel 1907 Dorabji Tata Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1] Worldwide B Muthuraman (Vice Chairman) HM Nerurkar (MD) Steel, flat steel products, long steel products, wire products, plates 118,753 crore (US$22.56 billion) (2011)[2]

Key people

Products

Revenue

Profit Total assets Employees Parent Subsidiaries Website

8,983 crore (US$1.71 billion) (2011)[2] US$ 24.446 billion (2010)[2] 81,269 (2011)[3] Tata Group Tata Steel Europe www.tatasteel.com

Tata Steel (BSE: 500470) (formerly TISCO and Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) is a multinational steel company headquartered in Jamshedpur, India and part of Tata Group. It is the world's seventh-largest steel company, with an annual crude steel capacity of 31 million tonnes, and the largest private-sector steel company in India measured by domestic production.[4] Tata Steel is also India's second largest and second-most profitable private-sector company, with consolidated revenues of 118,753 crore (US$22.56 billion) and net profit of over 8,983 crore (US$1.71 billion) in the year ended March 31, 2011.[5][6] Tata Steel is the eighth most-valuable Indian brand according to an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010. [7] It is currently ranked 410th in the Fortune Global 500.[8][9] Tata Steel's largest plant is located in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, with its recent acquisitions, the company has become a multinational with operations in various countries. The Jamshedpur plant contains the DCS supplied by Honeywell.The registered office of Tata Steel is in Mumbai. The company was also recognized as the world's best steel producer by World Steel Dynamics in 2005.[10] The company is listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India, and employs about 82,700 people (as of 2007).[3] In August 2007 Tata Steel won the bid to acquire the UK-based steel maker Corus in what was, to date, the largest international acquisition by an Indian company. It made the Tata Group the world's fifth largest steel maker, and catapulted them to the global league. ithe steelmaking and casting area
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Switchover from duplex and open hearth steelmaking to the oxygen process. Switchover from

Tata Steel is headquartered in India with operations in 26 countries

and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. Key locations for Tata Steel include Mumbai, Jamshedpur, London, Singapore and Bangkok.
hearth steelmaking to the oxygen process. duplex and open

Adopting optimum KD vessel configuration (to accommodate the high slag volume as a result of high silicon and phosphorus in hot metal) and use of bottom inert gas agitation.

Manufacturing Process

All our steel is produced via the Electric Arc (EAF) steelmaking route using 100% high quality scrap. The molten steel is ladle refined and vacuum degassed before being cast in Wide End Up (WEU) bottom poured ingot moulds or on a large continuous caster. Our versatile primary mill and billet finishing facilities ensure excellent shape and size control for all product sections.

Strategy KD vessel configuration (to accommodate the high sla As a result of innovations and technologic

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Steelmaking
Recyclable steel forms virtually 100% of the raw material required by the environmentally sustainable electric arc melting process. Steelmaking facilities 2 x 160t Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) 3 x ladle steelmaking furnaces 2 x vacuum degassing units Vacuum Oxygen Decarburisation unit (VOD)
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Casting

Our range of casting facilities provides the optimum metallurgical process route for demanding speciality steels. Wide End Up (WEU) bottom poured ingot casting facilities:

Controlled teeming rates to assure surface and internal quality. Gas shrouding to prevent reoxidation. High integrity hollow ware and bespoke ironware to ensure optimum ingot cleanness and soundness. Square 5.4 & 6.6 tonnes. Round (multi-fluted) ingots for remelting feedstock. 660 mm dia, 760 mm dia, 915 mm dia.

Continuous casting facilities:

Twin strand large bloom caster 560 mm x 400 mm. Both with complete shrouding, electromagnetic stirring, air mist cooling and full computer control.

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Remelting
Safety critical applications in the aerospace and high performance engineering sectors demand the highest integrity materials. Our fully automated computer controlled remelting furnaces produce steels to the most stringent specifications. Remelting facilities 2 x Electroslag Refining (ESR) furnaces fixed and collar mould 7 x Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) furnaces

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Finishing & Inspection

Finishing facilities Press and reeler straightening Grinding Cold sawing Kasto sawing cell for cutting to use lengths Smooth and precision turning Oiling and wrapping line Heat treatment furnaces Annealing furnaces Dressing

Inspection facilities Continuous processing line with billet straightening, defashing, shot blasting, THERMOMATIC surface and ultrasonic detection. MAGNAGLO inspection Dedicated inspection and finishing facilities for Aerospace steels Immersion ultrasonic inspection of remelted primary rounds

result of innovations and tecata Steel, has become a well-run ultra modern plant - one of the best in the world. Fundamental changes in some metallurgical parameters have brought about this remarkable transformation. Necessity became the mother of invention and numerous innovations invoked improvement. The metallurgical changes introduced were essentially centered around:

Reducing alumina level in sinter from 4.4 to 2.5 %. Improving in coke quality Making changes in the fluxes used in sintermaking essentially to decrease the alkali input. Adopting the optimum LD vessel configuration and blowing conditions to accommodate the high slag volume required to deal with high silicon and phosphorus in Indian hot metal. Increasing the yield during LD steelmaking Introducing continuous casting (CC) instead of ingot casting to increase the net yield.

All these factors have made Tata Steel internationally cost competitive. In terms of hot metal costs, Tata Steel is amongst the lowest in the world and has a clear advantage over other major integrated producers. The cost of conversion from hot metal to a finished product such as hot rolled coils where Tata Steel has not been very competitive so far would be taken care of in the near future as investments already made to achieve the results foreseen. High ash in coke, poor room temperature and high temperature strengths of coke, high alumina in the iron oxide feed, high silicon in hot metal, low yields during steelmaking, low yield of finished products, high energy consumption, high manpower, etc. have been the weaknesses not only of Tata Steel but of the Indian Steel industry as a whole. Appropriate steps taken by the Company have already resulted in better yield lower energy consumption, lower silicon in hot metal, lower silicon in hot metal, lower lime consumpdation, Tata Steel, has become a well-run ultra modern plant - one of the best in the world. Fundamental changes in some metallurgical parameters have brought about this remarkable transformation. Necessity became the mother of invention and numerous innovations invoked improvement. The metallurgical changes introduced were essentially centered around:

Reducing alumina level in sinter from 4.4 to 2.5 %. Improving in coke quality Making changes in the fluxes used in sintermaking essentially to decrease the alkali input. Adopting the optimum LD vessel configuration and blowing conditions to accommodate the high slag volume required to deal with high silicon and phosphorus in Indian hot metal. Increasing the yield during LD steelmaking Introducing continuous casting (CC) instead of ingot casting to increase the net yield.

All these factors have made Tata Steel internationally cost competitive. In terms of hot metal costs, Tata Steel is amongst the lowest in the world and has a clear advantage over other major integrated producers. The cost of conversion from hot metal to a finished product such as hot rolled coils where Tata Steel has not been very competitive so far would be taken care of in the near future as investments already made to achieve the results foreseen. High ash in coke, poor room temperature and high temperature strengths of coke, high alumina in the iron oxide feed, high silicon in hot metal, low yields during steelmaking, low yield of finished products, high energy consumption, high manpower, etc. have been the weaknesses not only of Tata Steel but of the Indian Steel industry as a whole.

Appropriate steps taken by the Company have already resulted in better yield lower energy consumption, lower silicon in hot metal, lower silicon in hot metal, lower lime consumphot metal) and use of bottom inert gas agitation.

Strategy to make low phosphorus Steel. Improvement 1000 heats of vessel lining life from 160-180 heats to over

Adoption of continuous casting throu