Tata Steel blast furnace turns 100 years today

Tata steel was established in 1907 by Jamshetji Tata. It was then named as Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd (TISCO). The blast furnace started on December 2, 1911 but steel production started few months later from February 1912. The city then came to be known as Jamshedpur.

Initially the steel plant could produce 160,000 tonnes of pig iron, 100,000 tonnes of ingot steel, 70,000 tonnes of rails, beams and shapes and 20,000 tonnes of bars, hoops and rods but now it has capacity to produce 10 million tonne of steel products.

An average of 6,300 people was engaged daily at the Works by the Company and its contractors in the early days, according to reports from Tata Steel