Tata Steel Group : Excellence through innovation

Mr. H. M. Nerurkar,
Managing Director, Tata Steel.

Tata Steel is among the top ten global steel companies with a crude steel production capacity of 26.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). A Fortune 500 company, the Tata Steel Group is the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer, employing over 80,000 people across five continents in nearly 50 countries. The Group’s Vision is to be the world steel industry benchmark in “Value Creation” and “Corporate Citizenship” through the excellence of its people, its innovative approach and overall conduct.

Tata Steel’s global journey began with the aim of achieving a larger geographic footprint and to service a global customer base, including the mature markets of the UK and Europe and the fast-growing markets in South East Asia and China. Apart from its Indian operations, the Tata Steel Group today comprises mainly its European operations through Tata Steel Europe ( www.tatasteeleurope.com ) and its South-East Asian operations through Tata Steel Thailand ( www.tatasteelthailand.com ) and NatSteel Holdings ( www.natsteel.com.sg ).

Indian Operations
Tata Steel founded India’s first industrial city, now Jamshedpur, where it established Asia’s first integrated steel plant in 1907. The Jamshedpur Works currently comprises a 6.8 MTPA crude steel production facility (with plans to grow to 10 MTPA in FY13) and a variety of finishing mills. Tata Steel has a significant presence in allied and downstream areas through its Strategic Business Units, namely Tubes Division, Bearings Division, Wire Division, Ferro Alloys & Minerals Division and Tata Growth Shop, which develops and manufactures specialist, high-precision industrial equipment. The Company also possesses and operates captive iron ore, coking coal and chrome ore mines.

Jamshedpur Works

Tata Steel has planned to set up three new greenfield steel projects in the states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, which will provide an additional capacity of 23 MTPA. Work on the 6 MTPA integrated greenfield steel project at Kalinganagar in Jajpur, Odisha, is already underway. A deep-sea port at Dhamra in Odisha, set up in joint venture with Larsen & Toubro, is already operational.

In 2008, Tata Steel India became the first integrated steel plant in the world, outside Japan, to be awarded the Deming Application Prize 2008 for excellence in Total Quality Management. In 2012, the Company achieved the distinction of becoming the first integrated steel plant in the world to be awarded with the Deming Grand Prize, the highest honor in Quality given by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE).

Corporate Sustainability – the Tata Steel way
Tata Steel was founded on the philosophy that the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is, in fact, the very purpose of its existence. The CSR activities of the Company have expanded to over 450 villages in the States of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

Tata Steel is a valued member of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) and has accepted a set of 11 Sustainability Indicators to measure its economic, environmental and social performance within the steel industry. The Company is also guided by frameworks such as the UN Millennium Development Goals which are advanced through its social initiatives. Tata Steel is also a founder member of the United Nations Global Compact.

For more information
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