India's Tata Steel Commissions 2.5 Million-Ton 'H' Blast Furnace

BANGALORE--June 17, 2008--Researched By Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Tata Steel (Mumbai), India's largest private player in the steel industry, has successfully commissioned the "H" blast furnace, India's largest blast furnace with a capacity of 2.5 million tons per year. The blast furnace, which was formally blown in on May 31 at Tata Steel Works in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, signifies a milestone achievement in the company's ambitious plans to ramp up the plant's manufacturing capacity from the current 5 million tons per year to 7 million tons per year in Phase I, and subsequently to 10 million tons per year in Phase II by December 2010.