Tata Steel crosses 2 mn in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Tata Steel’s Kalinganagar plant in Odisha has crossed 2 million tonnes of hot metal production at its blast furnace on Sunday. The country’s largest greenfield steel plant, which boasts of an operating blast furnace with 4,330 cubic metre capacity, was commissioned on February 28 last year. It had achieved 1 million-tonnemark on October 9, last year. “It took about 133 days to reach 2 million tonne production from 1 million tonne. The second million tonne was achieved at a production rate of 7,520 tonnes per day,” it said.