Tata Steel commissions new coke oven battery at Jamshedpur plant

Tata Steel, the world's seventh largest steel company, today said it has commissioned a new coke oven battery at its Jamshedpur steel plant, making the unit self-sufficient in coke requirement and in turn stabilizing operations there.

Built at a production capacity of 700,000 tonne, the coke oven battery-11 operates with 88 ovens with stamp charge technology and is the largest coke oven complex in Jamshedpur, the company said in a release.

The facility meets all environmental norms and consists of various features to take care of the plant and human safety, it said.

"The commissioning of the coke oven battery is also the last milestone project in the completion of the 3 million tonne expansion at Jamshedpur. The project will bring about commercially significant difference to the operations at the company," the release quoted Cyrus Mistry chairman of Tata Group as saying.