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Tata Steel Gamharia steel plant

operating

Jamshedpur, Asia Pacific, India

ISO 14001
GEM wiki

Process Route

BFDRIEAF

Timeline

Operating since 1971

Emissions

2025

1.67 Mt CO₂e

2.12 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical BF-BOF route: 1.8–2.0 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

1,200

EAF

1,200

Blast Furnace

650

DRI

645

Sinter

1,000

Coking

500

Pelletising

1,200

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Iron Units

BF
BF 1operating
276 ttpa280 m³Tata Korf - Korf Technologywiki
BF
BF 2operating
374 ttpa380 m³MECON (Govt. of India)wiki
DRI
DRI 2operating
129 ttpaTISCO; Lurgi GmbHwiki
DRI
DRI 3operating
129 ttpaTISCO; Lurgi GmbHwiki
DRI
DRI 4operating
129 ttpawiki
DRI
DRI 5operating
129 ttpawiki
DRI
DRI 1operating
129 ttpaTISCO; Lurgi GmbHwiki

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (2)operating
320 ttpa40 twiki
EAF
unknown EAF (3)operating
560 ttpa70 twiki
EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
320 ttpa40 twiki

Inputs & Energy

Power Two coal based captive power plants (25MW, began in 2001; 30MW, began in 2009); Two waste recovery captive power plants (30 MW DRI WHRB, began in 2012; 30MW Coke oven WHRB, began in 2013); Coal-gas hybrid captive power plant 15 MW

Iron ore Tata Steel Vijay-II Mine (P100000129405); Ghatkuri iron ore mine

Met coal Xstrata Coal Queensland Pvt. Ltd, Australia

Steel Products

wire rod

Ownership

Owner Tata Steel Ltd

Parent Tata Steel Ltd [100.0%]

Workforce 2,287 employees

State ownership Partial

Country Context

India crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.