Jamshedpur, April 23: State-of-the-art Cold Rolling Mill, CRM, of the Tata Steel- was commissioned in Jamshedpur on April 24, 2000 by Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Steel.
Set up in a record time of 26-and-a-half months, the 1.2-million tonne capacity plant was built in technical collaboration with the world’s second-largest steel producer Nippon Steel Corporation of Japan and the Hitachi Corporation Limited.
CRM produced a wide range of cold rolled and coated products to suit variable needs of the automotive and construction industries and for different household appliances, furniture and general engineering components.
Hailing the role of the Japanese and some other foreign collaborators in setting up of the plant in record time, Ratan Tata said that the idea of setting up the CRM was not only to meet the growing and diversified needs of the steel industry, but also in tune with the Tata family’s vision of being a part of modern India.
