Tata Steel to hike hot metal output
The Financial Express — March 28, 2005

Tata Iron & Steel Company (Tisco) is going to make up for the loss in production from its biggest 3,400-tonne per day (tpd) ‘G’ blast furnace, which has been shut down since December last year for a major capacity expansion-cum-revamping, by way of increasing hot metal production at its six other blast furnaces. Post-revamp, the blast furnace will be contributing around 5,150 tpd or 1.88 million tonne per annum (mtpa) of hot metal to the company’s production, which will mean an increase of around 51% from its last 1.24 mtpa production capacity.

“The loss in production of ‘G’ blast furnace will be compensated by increased production in ‘A-F’ furnaces through well-planned measures of throughput and production scheduling,” Tisco MD B Muthuraman said.