OREANDA-NEWS. April 11, 2011. Tata Steel completed the fiscal year 2010-11 (FY2011) with an all-round increase in its hot metal, crude steel, and saleable steel production and sales over last year (FY2010). The crude steel production at 6.855 million tonnes exceeded the installed capacity of 6.8mtpa in the second year after commissioning of the expansion project.

Key production and sales data for the year are given below:

Production and sales performance:

Items

Figures in '000 tonnes

April 2010 -  March 2011

FY2010

FY2011

Percentage change

Hot metal

7,231

7,503

3.8

Crude steel

6,564

6,855

4.4

Saleable steel

6,439

6,691

3.9

Sales

6,169

6,414

4.0

Major highlights - FY2011

Production

G blast furnace achieved best-ever annual production of 2.11 million tonnes (previous best 2.09 million tonnes in FY2010).

Both the steel melting shops LD2 and LD1 achieved their best-ever production of 3.80 million tonnes (previous best 3.71 million tonnes in FY2010) and 3.05 million tonnes (previous best 2.85 million tonnes in FY2010) respectively.

Hot strip mill achieved highest-ever production of 3.73 million tonnes (previous best 3.65 million tonnes in FY2010).

New bar mill achieved highest-ever production of 0.72 million tonnes (previous best 0.67 million tonnes in FY2010).

Merchant mill achieved highest-ever production of 0.37 million tonnes (previous best 0.34 million tonnes in FY2010).

West Bokaro division achieved highest-ever clean coal production of 2.20 million tonnes (previous best 2.14 million tonnes in FY2010).

OMQ division produced highest-ever iron ore of 13.55 million tonnes (previous best 12.33 million tonnes in FY2010).

Sales  

Seven-per-cent increase in long products sales at 2.876 million tonnes (2.697 million tonnes in FY2010).

Two-per-cent increase in flat products sales at 3.538 million tonnes (3.472 million tonnes in FY2010).

The flat products division achieved the strategic milestone of more than one million tonnes auto sales with sale of 1043kt, an increase of 18 per cent over the previous year.

The skin panel sales at 49kt registered an increase of 49 per cent as compared to the previous year.

The flat products distribution and branded products crossed the milestone of one million tonnes sales in FY2011.

The long products achieved best-ever Tata Steel sales of 1.82 million tonnes in FY2011 against the previous best of 1.57 million tonnes in FY2010 thus becoming the market leader in retail sector of rebars.