Profile
Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company (HMCPC), a joint venture between Tata Steel and West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), is the most recent addition to the Tata Group. The company was incorporated in February 2005 with Tata Steel holding 98-per cent, and WBIDC a 2-per cent stake.

The company is currently setting up a greenfield project at Haldia, West Bengal, with a proposed capacity of 1.6 million tonne of high-quality metallurgical coke. At its full capacity, it will be the largest stand-alone coke plant in India and one of the largest in the world. The project will supply metallurgical coke to the blast furnaces of Tata Steel at Jamshedpur. The waste heat generated by the plant will also be re-utilised for power generation by Tata Power, with a capacity of 120 mw. The envisaged cost of the project is around Rs1,150 crore (excluding investment by Tata Power). The company expects to begin operations by 2008.

The project will generate additional revenue for the Haldia Dock Complex. It will source most of its semi-skilled and skilled workforce from local areas of Haldia to meet the aspirations of the people. The technology adopted by the company is designed to meet stringent environmental norms and is the most environment-friendly technology in coke making.

Location
The company is headquartered in Kolkata.

Contact
Hooghly Met Coke and Power Company
16th floor, Tata Centre
43, Jawarharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata 700 071
Phone: +91 (33) 2288 5463 / 2224 8222
Fax: +91 (33) 2288 2074
Email: info@hooghlymetcoke.com

Plant address:
PO Haldia Refinery
District Purba Medinipur 721 606
West Bengal
Phone: +91 (03224) 251 943 / 251 990