India-headquartered steel giant Tata Steel has announced that it has started dispatch of ferrochrome, branded as Tata Tiscrome, from its new ferrochrome plant located in Gopalpur Industrial Park in Ganjam district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
According to Tata Steel, the first dispatches were made to Tata Steel’s distributors in northern and western India, namely, M/s Lauls Limited and M/s Rohit & Co. As part of the anchor investment in Tata Steel’s Gopalpur Industrial Park, the ferrochrome plant has an installed capacity of 55,000 mt per year. It is a unique environment-friendly plant with state-of-the-art pollution control equipment and technology such as the ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) and STP (Sewage Treatment Plant).
Besides the plant at Gopalpur, Tata Steel has three other ferroalloys plants in Odisha; a 65,000 mt per year plant at Bamnipal in Keonjhar district, a 55,000 mt per year ferromanganese plant in Joda and one at Athagarh in Cuttack district with 55,000 mt per year capacity under the management of its 100 percent-owned subsidiary T S Alloys.