Tata Steel clears path for environment-friendly coke plant at Jamshedpur

Completes controlled demolition of obsolete facilities

Tata Steel on Sunday executed the implosion of two obsolete coke plant ffacilities at Jamshedpur Works, paving the way for new coke oven batteries with the latest technology and higher efficiency.

In a statement, the company said that in a first-of-its-kind engineering process in the world, Tata Steel carried out the implosions in an operating steel plant with India's tallest factory mega structures. The implosions today marked the completion of the dismantling process of obsolete high-rise facilities at the coke plant at Jamshedpur Works.

Tata Steel is replacing the existing coke oven batteries 5, 6 and 7 (combined capacity of one million