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8 unusual facts about Tata Steel


Appleby Frodingham Railway

The railway operates entirely within the TATA steelworks over the tracks normally used for moving iron, steel and materials around the works.

Dee Estuary

Notable among these are Shotton Steel, formerly owned by John Summers & Sons, and now owned by Tata Steel; the gas fired power station at Connah's Quay; three separate paper mills; a chemical manufacturing plant; and numerous smaller manufacturing industries.

Jayanta Talukdar

Despite losses in 2009, the Tata Steel sponsored Talukdar was seeded Number 1 for the 2009 World Cup in Copenhagen.

Shapur Kharegat

Kharegat, who had a younger sister, Ratanbai (*15.1.1941 +11.8.2003), was a Parsi and a descendant of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, the first Indian Baronet and a first cousin once removed of Russi Mody, Chairman and Managing Director of Tata Steel.

SPECIFIC

The Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings (SPECIFIC) is an academic and industrial consortium led by Swansea University with Tata Steel as the main industrial partner.

Tatanagar railway station

Apart from this Adityapur has a goods yard which is used by Tata Steel for receiving/dispatch and parking of raw material/finished steel rakes.

The station facilities(yard) have been recently enhanced seeing need arising out of the expansion of the Tata Steel plant capacity from 6.8 MT to 10 MT.

Templeborough

The steelworks closed in 1993 and has since been partly converted into a museum — the £46 million Magna Centre, the only remaining Steel, Peech and Tozer plant is Brinsworth Strip Mills, located on Sheffield Road, which is now part of Tata Steel.


Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional

CSN has bid for the Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus, valuing it at 9.6 billion dollars in response to Tata Steel's new offer on December 11.

Dhanbad

Tata Steel, BCCL, ECL and IISCO (Indian Iron And Steel Company) are some of the companies having coal mines in the district.

Homi J. Bhabha

This was due to the insistence of his father and his uncle Dorab Tata, who planned for Bhabha to obtain a degree in Mechanical engineering from Cambridge and then return to India, where he would join the Tata Steel Mills in Jamshedpur as a metallurgist.

Jeahangir Ghandy

Jeahangir Ghandy was an Indian businessperson who is credited with building Tata Steel at Jamshedpur.

United Steel Companies

Nowadays the steel interests at Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Stocksbridge are part of Tata Steel and all the mining interests have been closed, the last, at Treeton, in the 1990s.


see also

Alexander Kovchan

Kovchan competed in Grandmaster Group C of the 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament from 11–27 January 2013 in Wijk aan Zee where he finished 5th place by scoring 7½/13 (+3 =9 -1).

Dhamra Port

The Dhamra Port Company Limited (DPCL) was formed as a result of a 50:50 joint venture between Larsen & Toubro and TATA Steel to run the port.