Tata Steel’s Q3 FY17 Key Production and Sales Figure

Jamshedpur, January 9, 2017

Production and Sales Performance: Tata Steel India        

                                                                                                                        Figures in ‘000 tonnes

Key Highlights:  

Tata Steel Jamshedpur Plant

• Best-ever Hot Metal Q3 production of 2.75 million tonnes (Previous best was 2.69 million tonnes in Q3 FY’16)
• Blast Furnaces have achieved lowest best-ever coke rate of 361 Kg/thm in Q3 (Previous best was 372 Kg/thm in Q3 FY’16), best-ever fuel rate of 540 Kg/thm in Q3 (Previous best was 544 Kg/thm in Q3 FY’16), and highest best-ever coal rate of 179 Kg/thm in Q3 (Previous best was 172 Kg/thm in Q3 FY’16)
• Pellet Plant achieved its best-ever Q3 production of 1.64 million tonnes in FY’17 (Previous best was 1.42 million tonnes in Q3 FY’16)
• Sinter Plant achieved its best-ever Q3 production of 2.09 million tonnes in FY’17 (Previous best was 2.05 million tonnes in Q3 FY’16)
• Hot Strip Mill achieved its best-ever Q3 production of 1.07 million tonnes (Previous best was 1.01 million tonnes in Q3 FY’16).
• Cold Rolling Mill achieved its best-ever Q3 production of 0.48 million tonnes (Previous best was 0.45 million tonnes in Q3 FY’16).

Tata Steel Kalinganagar Plant

• Crossed 1.5 million tonnes of Hot Metal & 1 million tonnes of Hot Rolled Coil production since commissioning in May.

Sales Highlights

• Q3 FY’17 saw sales of 2994 KT, an increase of 27% over last year in the same period. It is also an increase of 14% over Q2 FY’17, largely due to Tata Steel Kalinganagar ramp-up.
• The quarterly sales performance was enabled by higher sales in the Automotive segment (20% increase YoY), Branded Products (13% increase YoY) and Value-Added Products (37% increase YoY), & scaling up of sales in new segments, which registered a five-fold growth on YoY basis.

Awards & Recognitions 

• 1^st Prize at the National Energy Conservation Award 2016 in the ‘Integrated Iron and Steel’ sector. The award was given for the efforts towards reduction of thermal & electrical energy consumption during FY’16.
• IIM Sustainability Award 2016 during the National Metallurgist Day celebrated on November 14, 2016 at IIT Kanpur.
• Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2016 by World Steel Association on October 11, 2016 in Dubai for excellence in commitment and innovation in the pursuit of Zero- an injury-free, illness-free and healthy workplace.
• Conferred the IEI Industry Excellence Award 2016 in the ‘Manufacturing & Processing’ category for demonstrating the highest order of Business Excellence at the 31^st Indian Engineering Congress of the Institution of Engineers (India).