Established in the year 1990, Tata Metaliks began its commercial production in 1994 to become India’s number one pig iron manufacturing and selling company over the years. Located at Kharagpur in West Bengal and Redi in Maharashtra, it has an annual capacity of 6,50,000 tonnes.

Tata Metaliks Limited is a public limited company promoted by Tata Steel Limited (formerly, The Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited) and assisted by The West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. As on 31 March 2008, the promoter group (Tata Steel) shareholding in the Company is 50.044% and the total public shareholding is 49.956%. The turnover of the company was Rs. 11854.733 million in the year 2007 – 08; it earned a profit of Rs. 1063.32 million, which was an enhancement by 152% over last year. The Company aims to achieve a combined turnover of more than Rs. 20000 million by the year 2012 from the pig iron, DI pipes and castings business.

Tata Metaliks is a customer centric organization. The pig iron produced by Tata Metaliks Limited is rated as the best in India. The Company also provides its customers with critical support across their entire business cycle – raw material, process and end product – helping it emerge as their business partners. It emerged as a one-stop shop for raw materials and end products for a large number of customers.

The Customer Service Center of Tata Metaliks Limited has been set up with a view to provide an end-to-end service bouquet - supplying customized feedstock, cupola related services, helping optimize production processes, facilitating chemical analysis of the raw materials and so on. It is a pioneering industry initiative taken with the aim to not only give best service to customers, but also to improve the competitiveness of the local foundries and help them resolve their queries immediately.

Tata Metaliks through its joint venture with Kubota Corporation of Japan has promoted a new company called Tata Metaliks Kubota Pipes Ltd. (www.tatametalikskubota.com) and has entered into the business of manufacturing ductile iron pipes.

Future Plans

Sinter Project: Tata Metaliks Limited is in the process of setting up a sinter plant at its Kharagpur plant to produce about 6 lakh tonnes of sinter per annum. The project is scheduled to be commissioned by March' 2010. TCE Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd. are the consultants for this project. The use of sinter in the blast furnace burden will help in utilization of iron ore fines and other waste materials, that would reduce the coke rate in blast furnaces and improve their productivity.

Coke Oven Plant: Tata Metaliks Limited, Tata Steel (Thailand) and Hooghly Met Coke & Power Co. Ltd. have signed an MOU to jointly explore the possibility of setting up a heat recovery coke oven plant along with a power plant.

Karnataka Project: The State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC ) in its meeting has approved Tata Metaliks Limited's project of setting up a iron & steel plant in Haveri District, Karnataka.

Awards and Recognition

Tata Metaliks wins the CII Exim Bank Award - 2008 for strong commitment to Excel. Tata Metaliks Limited has been adjudged the Highest Delta & Business Excellence leader in TBEM (A Malcolm Baldridge Business Excellence Model) in 2007. They won the JRDQV Award for the year 2007. Bagged the TPM Excellence & TPM consistency awards from Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance in 2002 and 2006. Avaya Global Connect Customer Responsiveness Award in the year 2006. In the year 2005, we were ranked 5th in terms of ROCE and 6th in terms of ‘Return on Assets’ by Business World Survey. CII EXIM Bank’s Active Promotion Award in 2004. Among the first in this industry to implement ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and NABL ISO 17025 at both the plants at Kharagpur and Redi.

JRDQV Award