Tata Steel

Steelmaking, scrap and industrial by-products

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% scrap Ludhiana EAF route

Open Site, grade and buyer evidence

Screening No commercial claim

As of September 18, 2026

• 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.

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

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.

This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity.

Ludhiana scrap-supply lane

Qualify scrap by chemistry and contamination against the EAF's operating window.

Next evidence: Scrap specification, collection geography, volume, melt yield and finished-grade requirements.

Qualification path

Separate disclosed company activity from a usable commercial lane.

Next evidence: Named site, product grade and technical owner.

Commercial boundary

Do not infer customer demand from corporate reporting.

Next evidence: Buyer specification, commercial terms and approval.

• Integrated Report 2025-26 Tata Steel https://www.tatasteel.com/investors/integrated-report-2025-26/index.html
• Natural capital and circular economy Tata Steel https://www.tatasteel.com/investors/integrated-report-2025-26/natural-capital.html
• Circular economy Tata Steel https://www.tatasteel.com/sustainability/environment/circular-economy/
• Ludhiana scrap-based EAF Tata Steel, official project disclosure https://www.tatasteel.com/investors/integrated-report-2025-26/igniting.html

Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit.

The next useful working session starts with: Scrap specification, collection geography, volume, melt yield and finished-grade requirements.