Production and Sales Figures of Tata Steel for April 2009
Tata Steel (Indian operations) completed month of April with a significant increase in its hot metal, crude steel and saleable steel production over the corresponding month of last year. The figures for the Jamshedpur Works are appended below:
Production and Sales Performance
Items |
Figures in ‘000 tonnes |
||
April | |||
2008 |
2009 |
% Change |
|
Hot Metal |
445 |
579 |
30 |
Crude Steel |
412 |
503 |
22 |
Saleable Steel |
396 |
516 |
30 |
Sales |
343 |
452 |
31 |
Highlights
- 39% increase in Long Product sales over April’08
- 27% increase in Flat Product sales over April’08
- LD#1 (one of the Steel Melting Shop) recorded its best April production of 2,02,341 t (previous best 1,49,532 t in April’08)
- LD#2 (one of the Steel Melting Shop) recorded its best April production of 3,00,219 t (previous best 2,66,891 t in April’07)
- Merchant Mill recorded its best April production of 29,247 t (previous best 27,700 t in April’06)
- Hot Strip Mill recorded its best April production of 3,02,770 t (previous best
2,80,234 t in April’06)
- Cold Rolling Mill recorded its best April production of 1,32,048 t (previous best
1,24,741 t in April’05)