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Siemens to Provide Blast Furnace for Tata Steel Greenfield Facility

11/01/2007 - Tata Steel Ltd has placed an order with Metals Technologies (MT), a division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S), for the supply of engineering and key equipment for a new blast furnace. The parties agreed not to disclose the contract price.

Tata Steel Ltd has placed an order with Metals Technologies (MT), a division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S), for the supply of engineering and key equipment for a new blast furnace. The parties agreed not to disclose the contract price.
 
The new blast furnace facility will be part of a greenfield integrated iron and steel works to be built at Kalinganagar in the state of Orissa in eastern India. The state-of-the-art furnace will feature a 13.8-meter hearth diameter and will be capable of producing 3.2 million tonnes/year of hot metal.
 
Following recent acquisitions—NatSteel/Singapore, Millennium Steel (now Tata Steel Thailand) and the Corus Group (with major plants located in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, and the U.K.)—Tata Steel now has a worldwide annual crude steel production capacity of approximately 28 million tonnes, making it the world’s sixth-largest steel producer in terms of actual crude steel production. To further expand its steel production capacity to meet increased global steel demands, Tata Steel will implement three new greenfield steelmaking plants in eastern India. This includes construction of a six-million tonnes/year iron and steel complex at Kalinganagar in Orissa, which will be executed in two project modules of three million tonnes/year each.
 
For the first phase of development of the Kalinganagar project, Siemens Metals Technologies will engineer and supply key technological equipment for the Blast Furnace No. 1. The furnace will be designed with a 13.8-meter hearth diameter, a 4300-m3 inner volume, and a furnace top pressure of 2.5 bar g. The furnace will have a nominal daily production capacity of 9150 tonnes, and a nominal annual capacity of 3.2 million tonnes.
 
The blast furnace operate with a low fuel-consumption rate of 500–535 kg/tonne of hot metal, depending on the pulverized coal injection (PCI) rate and burden type; and a high coal-injection rate of 160–200 kg/tonne of hot metal. The furnace will employ advanced waste-heat-recovery and environmental systems, Level 1 automation systems, and Level 2 control and optimization systems. The furnace will have a flat casthouse floor to provide improved access and blast furnace operations. Siemens will also provide training, commissioning supervision, and start-up assistance.
 
Tata Steel Ltd is the world’s sixth-largest steel producer in terms of actual crude steel production, with geographic footprints in India, South East Asia, and Europe. The company manufactures a wide range of carbon-steel products which include hot- and cold-rolled coils and sheets, galvanized steel, plates, tubes, wire rods, construction rebars, rings and bearings which are primarily used in the construction, automotive and white goods industries.
 
Metals Technologies (MT), a Division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S), is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry as well as for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Linz/Austria and the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for all related technological processes and integrated automation solutions for the entire life-cycle of metallurgical plants.
 
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products and systems and process technologies in order to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness of companies in the sectors of metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 8.819 billion, according to U.S. GAAP.
 
Siemens’ reference portfolio comprises the supply of more than 170 new blast furnaces in addition to many more blast-furnace rebuilds.