Mumbai, July 07: Tata Steel Ltd, the world’s sixth-largest steel maker, said on Tuesday that June steel sales from its Indian operations rose 19 percent from a year earlier to 497,000 tonnes.
The Indian operations account for about a quarter of the group’s total annual global capacity of 30 million tonnes, which includes its Anglo-Dutch unit Corus.
Sales of long products, used in construction, jumped 30 percent in June from a year earlier, while flat products, used in automobiles and consumer durables industries, grew 12 percent, the company said in statement.
For the April-June quarter, sales from Indian operations rose 22 percent from a year earlier to 1.42 million tonnes, the company said.
—-Agencies