KOLKATA: Tata Steel's greenfield steel plant at Kalinganagar achieved a major milestone with hot metal production crossing two million tonne mark on February 19, 2017.Located in Odisha's Jajpur district, the plant has one of the largest operating blast furnaces in the country with a capacity of 4,330 cubic metres. The blast furnace, which was blown in on February 28, 2016,achieved the first million tonne of hot metal production on October 9, 2016. It has also started exports of hot rolled coils (HRC) and Tata Ferroshots to various countries. A new product launched by Tata Steel from its plant at Kalinganagar in March 2016, Tata Ferroshots mainly consists of granulated pig iron solidified by cooling in water. t is electric arc furnaces, induction furnaces, cupolas, basic oxygen furnaces and foundries as a replacement of pig iron, scrap or direct reduced iron (DRI).

Source: Economic Times February 21, 2017 12:26 UTC