Review of Operations

Wire Division

To bring about a greater focus to the Steel Wires Business, Tata Steel has brought all its wire manufacturing under one umbrella viz Global Wires Business. Tata Steel’s Global Wires Business would be amongst the top three wire manufacturing companies across the world with 9 manufacturing operations in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and China.

Tata Steel’s Wire Division in India has completed 50 years and has brought in a plethora of new products from umbrella rib wires in the 1960s to tyre bead to PC strands and promoted their applications. In India, the division is setting up a world-class manufacturing facility at Tarapur and also modernising the facilities at The Indian Steel & Wire Products in Jamshedpur. Its Thailand plant Siam Industrial Wire Co. Ltd., completed the commissioning of its new PC strands manufacturing facility in a record 10 months in January 2009. The Wuxi Jinyang Metal Products Co. China plant, which is one of the largest exporters of PC strands for the construction industry, has been approved by Dubai, CARES -UK and Finland.

The Wire Division, was the sole supplier of prestressed concrete strands used in the construction of precast segments for the 8-lane cable-stayed bridge covering 4.7 kms – Bandra-Worli Sea Link at Mumbai, India.