The celebrations commence with Mr R B B Singh & Mr B Muthuraman cutting a cake as Dr T Mukherjee & M Hussain look on

It is the story of a successful journey, spanning 50 years, marked by foresight, enterprise and the ability to understand the ever changing demands of the customer and the Indian market. Homes, irrigation works, cold storage and closed structurals across the country all use Tata Steel pipes. The history of the tubes business in India began in 1935 with the first continuous Weld Mill being commissioned and the first FM tubes rolled out of the company’s Works.

Prior to this, the country’s tube requirements were met by imports, an extremely expensive purchase for the nation. With the signing of an agreement between Tata Steel and Stewarts & Lloyds of UK in 1937, to manufacture and sell tubes from steel supplied by Tata Steel, the first step towards self-reliance was taken by the nation. Due to the disruption caused by World War II , the Indian Tube Company, the predecessor of the Tubes SBU was formed much later in 1954.

In 1986, the company became a wholly domestic enterprise with British Steel disinvesting its stake and the company merging with Tata Steel to become its Tubes Division.

With a production capacity of two lakh tonnes per annum today, the company’s Tubes SBU is the largest manufacturer of tubes in the country. In the run-up to the 50th year of tube making in the country, the Unit has launched a year long celebration.

Today, it is ranked among the top five Tata Group business units and has won the Group’s prestigious Tata Business Excellence Model Award.