Home-grown Tata Steel, which is adopting low-carbon-emitting steel-making technologies in India and Europe, aims to have 10-15 million tonnes of production through the recycling route in the next 10-15 years, the company’s CEO and MD T V Narendran, has said.
In FY25, Tata Steel produced 30.92 million tonnes of steel out of its total capacity of 35 million tonnes spread over India, the UK, the Netherlands and Thailand.
“…linearity to circularity is one shift we are making…. You will see in the next 10-15 years, 10-15 million tonnes of Tata Steel’s production will be through the recycling route,” Narendran said when asked about his vision on sustainability for Tata Steel.
The company aims to scale up its steel-making capacity to 40 million tonnes by 2030 in India. In the UK, Tata Steel is in the process of transitioning towards scrap-based electric arc furnace (EAF) manufacturing from the blast furnace steel-making route at its 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) plant located at Port Talbot in South Wales.
Narendran further said Tata Steel has set up a recycling plant near Delhi a few years back.
The 0.75-million tonne recycling-based steelmaking unit being set up in Ludhiana will be ready by the end of this financial year.
“In the UK, we’ve closed the blast furnaces and we’re building an electric arc furnace. In the Netherlands, we are in conversation with the Dutch government to do the same thing. So, by 2035, we won’t have any blast furnaces operating in Europe. So, from producing 10 million tonnes of steel using blast furnaces, we’ll be producing 10 million tonnes of steel using alternate process routes such as greener ones,” he said.
In the Netherlands, Tata Steel owns a steel manufacturing plant at IJmuiden, which produced an estimated 6.75 MTPA of liquid steel in FY25.
In India, Tata Steel has a steel capacity of over 26 million tonnes, and in Thailand, it has a capacity of 1.7 million tonnes.
