Ratan Tata could not inaugurate the country's second largest steel plant in Ludhiana.

Ludhiana: Noted Indian industrialist Ratan Tata passed away on Wednesday night, but the country's second largest green steel plant is being set up on 115 acres near Dhanansoo Hi-Tech Valley in Ludhiana at a cost of Rs 2,600 crore. The plant could not be inaugurated. While laying the foundation stone of the plant, the company management had described this plant as Ratan Tata's special plant. It has also been revealed that Ratan Tata had planned to come to Ludhiana when production at the plant started. The Tata Steel plant to be set up by Tata Steel Limited in Ludhiana after Jamshedpur in Jharkhand will be the first of its kind in the northern region and will primarily cater to the needs of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir. other states will complete

This project will take about one and a half years to complete. Interestingly, this steel plant will be environment friendly as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be much less than other steel plants. Since this steel plant will be completely scrap based, it will be an environment friendly plant as due to using only scrap for production, the CO2 emissions from the plant will be much less as compared to conventional steel plants. Major products produced here will include Tiscon bars which are used in construction of overbridges, houses and other infrastructure.

Automated Construction Service Center was inaugurated by Tata in Ludhiana, which was a big dream of Ratan Tata. The center is spread over 5 acres and has a production capacity of 1500 TPM (tonnes per month). The facility is manufacturing bored pile cages with customized cut and bent Tata Tiscon TMT rebar and coupler threading under Tiscon Readybuild. The facility will later expand its downstream solutions portfolio to include welded wire mesh. Thus it is establishing itself as a one-stop downstream manufacturing service centre. This facility has been created in collaboration with the company's channel partner Krishna Business Associates. This state-of-the-art facility is the fourth such center for Tata Steel, with three other centers having recently opened in Cuttack, Ghaziabad and Vijayawada. The company plans to set up 10 such centers across the country by 2025.