TATA STEEL EXPANDS AS IT FOCUSES ON INDIA’S GROWING AUTO SECTOR
September 1st, 2009
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
A CENTURY-OLD, India's first steel plant set up by the industrial group of Tata in the eastern town of Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) is not only the leading supplier of high quality steel to the country's auto industry, it is expanding. Strategically located near the country's best coking coal and iron ore mines, the plant - with eight blast furnaces and 14,000 employees - is presently being expanded and automated.
"Our existing hot rolling and cold rolling mills have sufficient capacities to serve the steel demand of the automotive customers ...
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