Tata Steel Ltd. said it had commissioned ‘India’s largest blast furnace’ at Kalinganagar, Odisha as part of the Phase II expansion its plant.
- The new blast furnace will significantly boost the plant’s overall production capabilities, allowing Tata Steel to meet the growing demands of various industries, including automotive, infrastructure, power, shipbuilding, and defence.
- It will also provide advantages in specific areas like oil & gas, lifting & excavation, and construction.
- The new blast furnace, with a volume of 5,870 m3, is equipped with features for long campaign life and an eco-friendly design to optimise the steelmaking process.
- A blast furnace is a reactor used in the iron and steel industry that transforms iron ore into molten iron.
- Blast furnaces produce pig iron from iron ore by the reducing action of carbon (supplied as coke) at a high temperature in the presence of a fluxing agent such as limestone.
