Tata Steel Gamharia
operatingBF–BOF Integrated route · Jamshedpur, Asia Pacific, India
Tata Steel Gamharia operates a blast furnace that smelts iron ore into liquid hot metal. Steel is made in an electric arc furnace, which can be charged with hot metal alongside scrap. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.2 million tonnes per year.
Process Route
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
Steel Units
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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Location
Jamshedpur
Asia Pacific
India
22.8129°, 86.0840°
At a Glance
- Route
- BF–BOF Integrated
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1971
- Products
- Finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded