While around half of these “hot rolled” sheets are sold off to outside clients like Kalyani, Wills India, ITW Signode, Tata Motors etc, the remaining are actually ‘sold’ off to the Cold Rolling Mill (CRM) unit just around the corner, to be converted into thinner and much longer sheets (say of just 0.67 mm thickness and up to an overwhelming 10 kilometres in length), depending totally on the end customer’s requirements; for Tata Steel is one of the very few companies in the world that now produce 100% finished steel customized to perfection. In fact, as Verma takes us around the CRM plant, it gets eerier. There is no sign at all of the heat and fire of blast furnace number 7. There are no sweating and cursing thousands of workers who struggle against the elements like in the Hot Rolling Mill.
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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006
