Tata Steel signed agreements for supply of equipment worth Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) on Monday for its proposed six million tonne steel plant at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa.
The equipment for which the orders were placed included one blast furnace and the complete steel making facility.
The dimension of the Blast Furnace will be 4300 cu.mts, along with its associated facilities and auxiliaries which will produce 3.2 million tonnes of hot metal per year.
This will be the largest blast furnace in India as on date and the work for the design and supplies has been awarded to Siemens VAI of UK.
Similarly, the complete steelmaking facilities included two 300MT capacity LD Converters, a three million tonne per annum two-strand continuous slab caster to cast 2000 mm wide slabs with secondary refining. The work for the design and supplies has been awarded to SMS Demag, Germany.
The facilities for desulphurisation of hot metal as well as refining of steel will be designed and supplied by SMS Mevac, UK.
The agreements were signed at Bombay House by B Muthuraman, MD, Tata Steel, H.M Nerurkar, vice-president, Tata Steel, and Geoff Wingrove, Director-Iron & Steel, Siemens VAI, UK, .B Dahmen, member of the managing board, SMS Demag AG of Germany and Craig Priday, MD, SMS Mevac, UK.
The first phase of 3 million tons per annum capacity, the MoU for which was signed with the Orissa government in November 2004, was scheduled to be commissioned in 2009.
