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Evidence-bound company brief · as of September 18, 2026

Tata Steel NSE: TATASTEEL

Steelmaking, scrap and industrial by-products

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Public materials brief.

Tata Steel's Ludhiana electric-arc furnace is a concrete scrap-based steelmaking node. Its broader by-product system creates a second lane, but both require grade, chemistry and end-market discipline.

Tata Steel reports that its Ludhiana facility is a 0.75 million tonne per year EAF designed to use 100% steel scrap, with approximately 40% sourced from its Rohtak recycling plant. The group also manages 18 to 20 million tonnes of by-products annually. Those disclosures do not establish a particular scrap supplier, slag product, or customer approval.

100% scrapLudhiana EAF route
OpenSite, grade and buyer evidence
ScreeningNo commercial claim
As ofSeptember 18, 2026

Material inputs to resolve

  • Ferrous scrap for EAF steelmaking
  • Slag and other steelmaking by-products

Outputs and residuals to resolve

  • Scrap-based steel products
  • Infrastructure and construction by-product applications
First decision: Scrap specification, collection geography, volume, melt yield and finished-grade requirements.

What is disclosed

Tata Steel describes its Ludhiana EAF as 100% scrap-based and reports by-product utilization across its operations.

What remains unproven

The reporting does not establish scrap chemistry, melt mix, plant-specific excess volume, product certification or contracted outlets.

Decision boundary

Tata Steel's Ludhiana electric-arc furnace is a concrete scrap-based steelmaking node. Its broader by-product system creates a second lane, but both require grade, chemistry and end-market discipline. The public record supports one bounded next move: Scrap specification, collection geography, volume, melt yield and finished-grade requirements. It does not establish a buyer, commercial approval or supply agreement.