Gopalpur : Tata Steel has started despatch of Ferro Chrome branded as Tata Tiscrome from its recently commissioned 55,000 tonne per annum ferro chrome plant in Gopalpur Industrial Park of Odisha yesterday. The first despatches were made to Tata Steel’s distributors in North and West India namely M/s Lauls Limited and M/s Rohit & Co. To mark this special occasion, both the distributors extended support of Rs 5 lakh each to “Daughters of Charity Mary Villa Home”, an old age home in Ganjam district.
The first ever despatch of ferro chrome from the plant was flagged off by Mr. Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President, Raw Materials, Tata Steel and Mr Arun Misra Vice President, Project Gopalpur, Tata Steel and MD, TSSEZ.
The Ferrochrome plant 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). It has 100% water harvesting facility that caters to most of the water needs of the plant. It has an indigenously built semi-closed hybrid furnace, which is first of its kind in India and components procured from all over the world to maintain high standards of quality and safety. Also, it is the first plant in India to use briquetting method of Chrome ore fines agglomeration with ore proportionating facility. It has Factory Stuffing Yard inside the plant premises which has concept to directly dispatch to customers through containers QA Checked, weighed, sealed & customs clearance at site.
Besides the plant at Gopalpur, Tata Steel has three other Ferro-alloys plants in Odisha, a 65,000 TPA plant at Bamnipal in Keonjhar district, 55,000 ferro Manganese plant in Joda and one at Athagarh in Cuttack district of 55,000 TPA capacity under the management of its 100% subsidiary T S Alloys.