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art equipment and leadership in the use of advanced technology stated by the company’s chairman Naveen Jindal. He
and analytics to drive financial and operational impact, making Tata said JSPl has secured sufficient reserves of coal to
Steel plants among the most advanced steel plants globally.” enable the mega steel company to enhance its capacity
for green steel making.
The Global Lighthouse Network is a community of
production sites and other facilities that are world he claimed that JSPl is the first steelmaker in the world
leaders in the adoption and integration of the cutting- to build coal Gasification to produce steel using clean
edge technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution coal technologies.
(4IR). lighthouses apply 4IR technologies such as Jindal said, “We won the Utkal B1 & B2 coal Block on
artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and big data analytics 17th Punyatithi of Shri OP Jindal Ji who had a vision of
to maximize efficiency and competitiveness at scale, using indigenous coal to make steel. this will help us
transform business models and drive economic to translate the shared dream of Bauji and legendary
growth, while augmenting the workforce, protecting
the environment, and contributing to a learning journey leader BijuPatnaikji to a reality and bring prosperity
for all-sized manufacturers across all geographies and to Odisha through value addition of natural resources
industries. and industrialization”.Odisha is our karmabhoomi
(workplace) and we are firmly committed to its overall
The Global Lighthouse Network is a World Economic development. Aligning with Chief Minister Naveen
Forum initiative in collaboration with McKinsey Patnaik’s vision of industry-led holistic prosperity, we
& company, and the factories are chosen by an will make the world’s largest single-location steelmaking
independent panel. complex at Angul, Odisha by 2030,” he said in a tweet.
tata Steel Jamshedpur’s journey from being Asia’s first the high-level clearance Authority of Odisha, headed
integrated steel plant to be set up in 1907 to receiving by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, had approved
this recognition is a testament to the company’s JSPl’s proposal to expand the capacity of its steel
continuous improvement culture, its ability to embrace plant to 25.2 Mtpa at Angul by 2030. this would be the
change and constantly be in sync with technological
progress and focus on employee capability building. world’s largest and greenest single-location steel plant,
thus pitching Odisha’s USP on the global steel map.
During the covid-19 pandemic, tata Steel leveraged
its past investments in 4th Industrial Revolution the capacity expansion is expected to increase JSPl’s
technologies to ensure covid appropriate behaviour investment in Odisha to more than Rs 1,25,000crore
in operational areas and business continuity during from Rs 45,000 crore at present. this is also expected to
lockdowns while continuing to adopt new ways of generate enormous economic activity and employment
working. opportunities in the state.

tata Steel has been on a multi-year digital-enabled the coal gasification route, also known as an
business transformation journey intending to be the environment-friendly technology, would be helpful in
leader in digital steel making by 2025 through the producing steel using indigenous coal, leading towards
adoption of digital technologies. In the process, the AtmaNirbhar Bharat, he said.
company intends to generate substantial eBIDtA Rebar mills inaugurated at JSPL’s Angul steel
improvement, and enhance its digital maturity & complex
stakeholder experience while evolving its work
practices to be more agile, insightful, and intelligent as Union steel minister Ram chandra Prasad Singh
an organisation. dedicated the Rebar Mill of Jindal Steel and Power
(JSP) at its integrated steel complex at Angul. this
OTHER STEEL PLANTS
mill of 14 lakh tonne per annum capacity is one of the
JSPL plans Largest and Greenest Steel Plant in world’s largest and the most modern Rebar Mills.
Odisha
Around Rs 900 crore has been invested for the rebar
After bagging Utkal B1 and B2 coal block in the Angul- mill. It has already engaged 200 people in the mill, but
talcher belt in the state, Jindal Steel & Power limited it will give more indirect employment. this rebar mill will
(JSPl) said it would develop its Odisha plant into the produce high quality and strong rebars which can be
largest and greenest facility in the world. this was used for big infrastructure projects including bridge and

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