Tata Steel on Wednesday commissioned its new first of its kind 0.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) steel recycling plant at Rohtak in Haryana.
The plant has been set up in collaboration with Aarti Green Tech Ltd., as a ‘Build, Own, Operate’ (BOO) basis.
Officials said it is the first such facility in India, equipped with modern and mechanised equipment like shredder, baler and material handler.
The scrap would be procured from various market segments such as obsolete vehicles, household and construction materials through an App FerroHaat.
The scrap would then be processed through mechanised equipment and the high-quality processed scrap would be supplied for downstream steel making.
Steel produced through the recycled route entails lower carbon emissions, resource consumption and energy utilisation.
The steel major on Wednesday also launched two new 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 they promise to provide the much-needed raw material fillip to Indian steel industry by making available quality processed ferrous scrap and reducing the dependency on imports.
Both Tata FerroBaled and Tata FerroShred will ensure high cleanliness, low contamination, high bulk density, lower tramp elements and no radioactivity.
The products would be accompanied with test certificates, another first for the scrap industry, along with value propositions like higher yield, better productivity, lower conversion costs, lower transportation and overall a better quality.
Yogesh Bedi, chief Steel Recycling Business, Tata Steel, said, “Steel can be recycled again and again without losing its properties. From that perspective steel scrap is a valuable resource and an important future raw material for steel making. The brand names will give a distinct identity to the processed scrap and ensure a standardised quality product for the customer and simultaneously raise the bar of the scrap Industry.
This initiative was the vision of our CEO and managing director T V Narendran."
