Tata announced on Friday, September 20 that the company had successfully commissioned India’s largest blast furnace at Kalinganagar in Odisha.

Subject to planning consent work on the arc furnace will start next summer and become operational in late 2027

Tata Steel says when the electric arc furnace is up and running, it "will reduce the UK’s entire industrial carbon emissions by 8%". Once it is up and running, Port Talbot's electric arc furnace will produce steel in a way never seen before in the town's more than 120 years of steelmaking.

Tata Steel UK has launched the next consultation phase on its proposal to build an Electric Arc Furnace at its Port Talbot steelworks. The pre-application

The UK government has awarded Tata Steel Ltd a £500 million grant for its green steel project in Port Talbot. This investment will help reduce emissions, replace outdated blast furnaces, and foster economic growth and job creation in South Wales.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds will give the Government's backing for an agreement similar to the one thrashed out under the Tories.

The new blast furnace, with a volume of 5,870 m3, is equipped with state-of-the-art features for long campaign life and an eco-friendly design to optimise the steelmaking process. The blast furnace will also have a zero-process water discharge plan with rainwater harvesting.