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Tata steel’s Ferro chrome plant at Gopalpur starts production

(Rptg, correcting file)
Bhubaneswar, Feb 28(UNI) The recently commissioned ferro-chrome plant of Tata Steel at Gopalpur Industrial Park in Ganjam district of Odisha, has achieved a major milestone with the first ever production of ferro-chrome on February 25 last
Tata Steel sources said the Chromite briquettes used for making ferro-chrome have been produced by the Briquetting Plant at the ferro-chrome plant complex. The Briquetting Plant had earlier commenced production on January 23, 2017. For the plant, the steel major is sourcing chrome ore from its chromite mine at Sukinda in Jajpur district of Odisha.
Executive-in-Charge, Ferro Alloys & Minerals Division of Tata Steel D B Sundara Ramam said, "This marks the completion of the commissioning of the ferro-chrome plant. It also goes a long way in consolidating our footprint in Odisha and the long standing partnership with the state towards industrial progress of the region.”
As part of the anchor investment in Tata Steel’s Gopalpur Industrial Park, the Rs 542 crore Ferro-chrome plant has an installed capacity of 55,000 tonne per annum (TPA).The plant was inaugurated on November 30, 2016 by Chief Naveen Patnaik.
The plant is a unique environment-friendly with state-of-the-art pollution control equipment and technology such as the ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) and STP (Sewage Treatment Plant).It has 100 per cent water harvesting facility that caters to most of the water needs of the plant and an indigenously built semi-closed hybrid furnace, which is first of its kind in the country.
The Ferro chrome plant is the first plant in India to use briquetting method of Chrome ore fines agglomeration.Besides the plant at Gopalpur, Tata Steel has two other Ferro-chrome plants in Odisha- a 65,000 TPA plant at Bamnipal in Keonjhar district and the other at Athagarh in Cuttack district of 55,000 TPA capacity under the management of its subsidiary T S Alloys.
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