Blast operations of Tata Steel completes 100 years

JAMSHEDPUR: The blast furnace operations of Tata Steel completed 100 years today.

Established in 1907 as Asia's first integrated private sector steel company, the plant at Jamshedpur became active when the Blast Furnace was blown for the first time on December 2,1911.

Steel production commenced a few weeks later on February 16, 1912.

For a plant with an initial capacity to produce 160,000 tonnes of pig iron, 100,000 tonnes of ingot steel, 70,000 tonnes of rails, beams and shapes and 20,000 tonnes of bars, hoops and rods, the Jamshedpur Works of Tata Steel has come a long way and was well on track to becoming a 10 million tonne steel plant in next few months, a company release today said.

An average of 6,300 people was engaged daily at the Works by the Company and its contractors in the early days, the release said.