Commercial production from Kalinganagar will start in H2, Financial Year 2015-16. With this, Tata Steel will reinforce its long term supply commitment to the automotive and other growth markets, and will enable supply to highend application products. At full ramp up of all facilities, Kalinganagar will be able to produce 3 million tonnes per annum of HRC.

A focussed Rehabilitation & Resettlement (R&R) initiative in and around Kalinganagar, are making it a model for R&R. The Tata Steel Parivar is a concept that addresses:

• Relocation and rehabilitation of families in specially created colonies.
• community issues like places of worship, spaces for festivals, burial grounds etc.
• health with medical services, ambulance facilities and dispensaries etc.
• education with schools, scholarships, technical training etc., for children and youth.
• women empowerment with schemes like ‘Navjeevan’
• a women’s self-help cooperative.

The KPO capacities will open new segments such as API (X80 and X100), Heavy Engineering, Construction Projects, Lifting and Excavation, Electrical Machineries, Boiler Plates, Capital Goods, Ship Building and Defence which constitute market demand of 8,500k tonnes per annum in Financial Year 2014-15. This will reach a market size of 11,000k tonnes per annum by Financial Year 2019-20. Post commissioning of the KPO, not only will the Company be able to complement products of existing facilities, but also address the entire range of HR market by enhancing its capability to produce upto 1200 MPa tensile, 2050mm wide and 25mm thick HR coils. In addition to this, the Company's ability to meet the emerging requirements in high strength automotive grades such as DP1200 and TRIP steel will help enhance its Share of Business (SOB) in the automotive market. The Company will be able to supply high-end application products in the market (e.g. HS 800, DP 600, DP 1000, API X70/X80, S355, ASTM A572, etc.) and also develop unique grades with tighter dimensional tolerance. The second phase expansion of the KPO will take the plant capacity to 6 million tonnes per annum.

Some technologies that are unique to KPO include CAS OB process for secondary refining in steel making; twin Caster for Steel Casting; twin tippler for raw material handling.