Tata Steel has announced that the company is aiming to have 10-15 million tonnes of production through recycling route in the next 10-15 years, a PTI report stated. Tata Steel is adopting low carbon emitting steel making technologies in India and Europe.
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.
When asked about his vision on sustainability for Tata Steel, CEO and MD TV Narendran told PTI, “..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.”
The company plans to expand its steel production capacity in India to 40 million tonnes by 2030. In the UK, Tata Steel is transitioning from the traditional blast furnace method to a scrap-based electric arc furnace (EAF) process at its 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) facility in Port Talbot, South Wales.
TV Narendran further said that Tata Steel had set up a recycling plant near Delhi a few years back. He further added that 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 similar 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,” he said.
Tata Steel operates a steel manufacturing facility in IJmuiden, Netherlands, which produced approximately 6.75 million tonnes of liquid steel in FY25. In India, the company has a steel production capacity exceeding 26 million tonnes, along with an additional 1.7 million tonnes capacity in Thailand.