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Tata announced on Friday, September 20 that the company had successfully commissioned India’s largest blast furnace at Kalinganagar in Odisha.
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Tata Steel says when the electric arc furnace is up and running, it "will reduce the UK’s entire industrial carbon emissions by 8%". Once it is up and running, Port Talbot's electric arc furnace will produce steel in a way never seen before in the town's more than 120 years of steelmaking.
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Tata Steel commissions India’s largest blast furnace in Kalinganagar, Odisha
Tata Steel announced that it has commissioned India’s largest blast furnace in Kalinganagar, Odisha, with a total investment of Rs 27,000 crore. It added that the Phase II expansion at Kalinganagar will take the total capacity at the site from 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 8 MTPA.
India’s largest blast furnace with Rs 27k cr investment by Tata Steel in THIS state
The new blast furnace, with a volume of 5,870 m3, is equipped with state-of-the-art features for long campaign life and an eco-friendly design to optimise the steelmaking process. The blast furnace will also have a zero-process water discharge plan with rainwater harvesting.
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