Introduction
TISCO, Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, also called Tata Steel was envisioned by the great patriot, Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, and founded in 1907.
Tata Steel has play a pioneering role in integrating professional business practices with exemplary corporate citizenship programmes in India.
The company�s steel works, located in jamshedpur is Asia�s first and country�s largest integrated private sector steel plant. Set up with the initial capacity of two 200-tonne blast furnace, four 4-tonne steam driven blooming mils and a rail and structural mill, it is now a state-of-art plant with a rated capacity of three million tones per annum of crude steel.
At present it produces steel mainly in the form of flats, wire rods and bars. In addition to steel, the company is in the business of diverse products, such as bearings, steel plant capital equipment and spares, cement, tubes, etc.Captive mines and collieries, located mainly in Bihar and Orissa, supply the finest grades of feedstock to the steel plant. The process of customer satisfaction at Tata Steel, which begins with raw materials preparation, is meticulously inter-linked by a quality and value chain at every stage of its operations.
For a company fully �mindful of its social responsibilities�, the universe of stakeholders extends beyond the realm of customers, shareholders, and employees. In tune with the vision of its founder, Tata Steel� is� a role model in fulfilling corporate social responsibilities. Tata Steel is also committed to Sustinable Development and recognizes the need to pursue progressive environmental management policies to preserve the ecological balance and biodiversity in areas in the vicinity of its operations.