According to recent market news,
Tata Steel plans to increase its
sponge iron capacity by installing two
sponge iron kilns, each of which will have a daily
production capacity of 500 tons.
The officials of
Tata Steel state that,
sponge iron kilns produce more than the conventional blast furnaces, moreover they consume less coke.
With the installation of these two kilns, the annual iron
production of the company will increase to 360'000 tons from the current capacity of 270'000 tons.