Gopalpur: Tata Steel has started dispatching Ferro Chrome branded as Tata Tiscrome from its ferro chrome plant at Gopalpur Industrial Park in Odisha’s Ganjam district.
The first dispatches were made to Tata Steel’s distributors in North and West India namely M/s Lauls Limited and M/s Rohit & Co. Both the distributors extended support of Rs 5 lakh each to “Daughters of Charity Mary Villa Home”, an old age home in Ganjam district.
As part of the anchor investment in Tata Steel’s Gopalpur Industrial Park, the ferro-chrome plant has an installed capacity of 55,000 tonne per annum (TPA). It is a unique environment-friendly plant with state-of-the-art pollution control equipment and technology such as the ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) and STP (Sewage Treatment Plant).
With 100% water harvesting facility, most of the water needs of the plant will be taken care of by the same. It has an indigenously built semi-closed hybrid furnace, which is first of its kind in India. It is the first plant in India to use briquetting method of Chrome ore fines agglomeration with ore proportioning facility.
There is a Factory Stuffing Yard inside the plant premises which will directly dispatch to customers through containers QA Checked, weighed, sealed & customs clearance at site.
Besides the plant at Gopalpur, Tata Steel has three other Ferro-alloys plants in Odisha, a 65,000 TPA plant at Bamnipal in Keonjhar district, 55,000 ferro Manganese plant in Joda and one at Athagarh in Cuttack district of 55,000 TPA capacity under the management of its 100% subsidiary T S Alloys.
Tata Steel Group stands among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tonnes per annum (MnTPA) and a turnover of US $17.69 billion in FY16.
