CB BureauThe company has commissioned its new 0.5 MnTPA steel-recycling plant at Rohtak, Haryana. In a press release, it claims that the plant is the first such facility in India, equipped with mechanised equipment such as shredder, baler, and material handler. The scrap will be procured from various market segments including end-of-life vehicles, obsolete households, construction and demolition, and industrial, through an app FerroHaat ®.
The scrap will be processed through mechanised equipment and thereafter supplied for downstream steel making. Steel produced through the recycled route has the advantage of lower carbon emissions, resource consumption and energy utilisation.
Simultaneously, Tata Steel has launched two brands – Tata FerroBaled ® and Tata FerroShred ® for the baled and shredded ferrous scrap produced in its new facility. These products are high-quality processed scrap and expected to provide the much-needed raw material fillip to the Indian steel industry by making available quality processed ferrous scrap and reducing the dependency on imports. The products will offer value propositions like higher yield, better productivity, lower conversion costs, and lower transportation and handling costs.
The following questions from CauseBecause did not receive any response from the company:
-What is the ‘steel mix’ currently for the company – percentage of recycled steel and conventionally produced steel? Going ahead, how will this change?
-What measures are being taken to minimise/counter the many environmentally adverse effects of steel production?
-With demand for steel continuing to rise, are there alternatives with which to manage that demand?