Tata Steel begins production at coke ovens in Kalinganagar project

Friday, 11 September 2015 12:32:20 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

India-headquartered steel giant Tata Steel has announced that on September 4 it started production at the coke ovens at its greenfield project at Kalinganagar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The heating of the coke ovens had commenced on May 19 this year.

The Kalinganagar project is the largest single location greenfield steel project in India having a rated capacity of three million mt per year in the first phase. Various units of the plant will start commercial production sequentially. In the first phase, the steel plant will have two coke oven batteries, each comprising 88 ovens and having a gross coke production capacity of 1.5 million mt per year. In addition, coke oven gas also will be available, which will be used as fuel for other production units.

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