Tata Steel is likely to sign up with two China-based companies - Anshan Coking & Refractory Engineering (ACRE) Consulting Corporation and the Chinese arm of Koch, a German company for the import of technology and equipment for a 1.5 million tpa capacity coke oven plant to be set up at its proposed 6 million tpa, Rs 15,000 crore steel facility at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa by early-October 2007.

The estimated size of the contract is Rs.500 crore. ACRE will supply the main battery, while Koch will supply machinery for the coke oven plant. The coke oven plant will consist of two stamp-charged batteries and the annual 1.5 million tpa coke output from the plant is expected to meet the first phase requirement of the steel project.

While the order for one blast furnace, with associated facilities/auxiliaries, was placed with Siemens VAI of the UK, SMS Demag, Germany has been roped in to establish the complete steelmaking facility, including two 300 tpa capacity LD converters, a three million tpa two-strand continuous slab caster to cast 2,000 mm wide slabs with secondary refining.

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