Tata BlueScope Steel Ltd, the 50:50 joint venture between Tata Steel and Australia's BlueScope Steel Ltd on 8 August 2006 opened its first roll forming and pre-engineered building facility at Hinjewadi in Pune.

The new facility would manufacture, design and supply flat steel products such as zincalume and colorbond coated steels and a range of Butler and Lysaght metal building solutions.

A total investment of Rs.300 crore would be utilised for its three facilities in Pune, Sriperumbudur in Chennai and Bhiwandi in Rajasthan. The Chennai and Bhiwandi facilities are under construction and are expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of the current fiscal.

The Pune facility would also house a design centre with a fully staffed engineering team, which would create new concepts, products and applications for steel in buildings.  It would manufacture beams, columns, and other roofing and wall cladding components for pre-engineered metal buildings and other building solutions. The company would be entering the market in the industrial and commercial segment and then later residential segment.

Apart from the three facilities, the Tata-Bluescope joint venture is also constructing a metallic coating and painting facility at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. The new facility would have an annual metallic coating capacity of 2,50,000 tonnes and paint line capacity of 1,50,000 tonnes. This facility is expected to be operational by 2008-end and would be utilising Rs 900 crore.

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