The first ever production of ferro-chrome started on February 25, with compliance to all technical parameters, a company release said today.
Chromite briquettes used for making ferro-chrome have been produced by the Briquetting Plant at the ferro-chrome plant complex. The Briquetting Plant had earlier commenced production on January 23, 2017. For the plant, the steel major is sourcing chrome ore from its chromite mine at Sukinda in Jajpur district of Odisha, it said.
Speaking on the occasion D B Sundara Ramam, Executive-in-Charge, Ferro Alloys & Minerals Division of Tata Steel said, "This marks the completion of the commissioning of the ferro-chrome plant. It goes a long way in consolidating our footprint in Odisha and the long standing partnership with the state towards industrial progress of the region."
It is a unique environment-friendly plant with state-of-the-art pollution control equipment and technology such as the ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) and STP (Sewage Treatment Plant). It has 100 per cent water harvesting facility that caters to the most water needs of the plant.
It has an indigenously built semi-closed hybrid furnace, which is the first of its kind in the country and components procured from across the world to maintain high standards of quality and safety. Also, it is the first plant to use briquetting method of Chrome ore fines agglomeration, it said.
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