Introduction
Backed by 100 glorious years of experience in steel making, Tata Steel is among the top ten steel producers in the world with an existing annual crude steel production capacity of 30 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA). Established in 1907, it is the first integrated steel plant in Asia and is now the world`s second most geographically diversified steel producer and a Fortune 500 Company.
Tata Steel has a balanced global presence in over 50 developed European and fast growing Asian markets, with manufacturing units in 26 countries.
It was the vision of the founder; Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata., that on 27th February, 1908, the first stake was driven into the soil of Sakchi. His vision helped Tata Steel overcome several periods of adversity and strive to improve against all odds.
Tata Steel`s Jamshedpur (India) Works has a crude steel production capacity of 6.8 MTPA which is slated to increase to 10 MTPA by 2010. The Company also has proposed three Greenfield steel projects in the states of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh in India with additional capacity of 23 MTPA and a Greenfield project in Vietnam.
Through investments in Corus, Millennium Steel (renamed Tata Steel Thailand) and NatSteel Holdings, Singapore, Tata Steel has created a manufacturing and marketing network in Europe, South East Asia and the pacific-rim countries. Corus, which manufactured over 20 MTPA of steel in 2008, has operations in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway and Belgium.
Tata Steel Thailand is the largest producer of long steel products in Thailand, with a manufacturing capacity of 1.7 MTPA. Tata Steel has proposed a 0.5 MTPA mini blast furnace project in Thailand. NatSteel Holdings produces about 2 MTPA of steel products across its regional operations in seven countries.
Tata Steel, through its joint venture with Tata BlueScope Steel Limited, has also entered the steel building and construction applications market.
The iron ore mines and collieries in India give the Company a distinct advantage in raw material sourcing. Tata Steel is also striving towards raw materials security through joint ventures in Thailand, Australia, Mozambique, Ivory Coast (West Africa) and Oman. Tata Steel has signed an agreement with Steel Authority of India Limited to establish a 50:50 joint venture company for coal mining in India. Also, Tata Steel has bought 19.9% stake in New Millennium Capital Corporation, Canada for iron ore mining.
Exploration of opportunities in titanium dioxide business in Tamil Nadu, ferro-chrome plant in South Africa and setting up of a deep-sea port in coastal Orissa are integral to the Growth and Globalisation objective of Tata Steel.
Tata Steel’s vision is to be the global steel industry benchmark for Value Creation and Corporate Citizenship.
Tata Steel India is the first integrated steel company in the world, outside Japan, to be awarded the Deming Application Prize 2008 for excellence in Total Quality Management.
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Products
 Tata Steel`s Jamshedpur Works produces hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, galvanized sheets, tubes, wire rods, construction rebars and bearings. In an attempt to 'decommoditise' steel, Tata Steel has introduced brands like Tata Steelium (the world's first branded Cold Rolled Steel), Tata Shaktee (Galvanized Corrugated Sheets), Tata Tiscon (re-bars), Tata Bearings, Tata Agrico (hand tools and implements), Tata Wiron (galvanized wire products), Tata Pipes (pipes for construction) and Tata Structura (contemporary construction material).Apart from these product brands, the company also has in its folds a service brand called “steeljunction”.
Corus’ main operating divisions comprise Strip Products, Long Products and Distribution & Building Systems Division.
The NatSteel group produces construction grade steel such as rebars, ‘cut-and-bend’ cages for construction, mesh, precage bore pile, PC wires and PC strand.
Tata Steel Thailand produces round bars and deformed bars for the construction industry.
Corporate Sustainability
Regarded globally as a benchmark in corporate
social responsibility, Tata Steel's commitment to the community
remains the bedrock of its hundred years of sustainability. Its
mammoth social outreach programme covers the company-managed city of
Jamshedpur and over 800 villages in and around its manufacturing and
raw materials operations through uplift initiatives in the areas of
income generation, health and medical care, education, sports, and
relief.
The Company, fully conscious of its
responsibilities to the future generations, has always taken
pro-active measures to ensure optimum utilization of natural
resources. This is reflected in the ISO-14001 certification that all
its operations have achieved for environment management. The SA 8000
certification for work conditions and improvements in the workplace
at the steel works in Jamshedpur, along with its Ferro Alloys and
Minerals Division, is a reiteration of its commitment towards the
Company's employees. Tata Steel has pioneered numerous employee
welfare measures such as the 8 hours working day and the three tier
joint consultation system of management which have been the platform
for nearly 80 years of industrial harmony in its Steel Works in
Jamshedpur.
Awards and Recognitions
World Steel Dynamics has ranked Tata Steel as the world's best steel maker (for two consecutive years) in its annual listing in February 2006.
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Tata Steel has been conferred the Prime Minister of India's Trophy for the Best Integrated Steel Plant five times.
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It has been awarded Asia's Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise award five times in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
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Conferred the prestigious Global Business Coalition Award for Business Excellence in the Community in recognition of its pioneering work in the field of HIV/ AIDS awareness.
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Tata Steel works has been conferred the prestigious social accountability (SA) 8000 certification by social. Accountability international (SAI), USA. It is the first steel company in the world to receive this certificate.
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Corporate Sustainability Report of Tata Steel hailed by United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard and poor as strongest, submitted by any corporate house from emerging economies.
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Best governed company Award 2006 for setting high standards in governance practices.
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Tata Steel won "Award for Corporate Social Responsibility in Public health" by US- Indian Business Council (USIBC), Population Services International (PSI) and the center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 2007.
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