As part of the anchor investment in Tata Steel's Gopalpur Industrial Park, the Rs 542 crore ferro-chrome plant has an installed capacity of 55,000 tonne per annum (TPA). The plant was inaugurated on November 30, 2016, by the Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik. It is a unique environment-friendly plant with state-of-the-art pollution control equipment and technology such as the ETP (effluent treatment plant) and STP (sewage treatment plant). It has 100 percent water harvesting facility that caters to most of the water needs of the plant. It has an indigenously built semi-closed hybrid furnace, which is first of its kind in India and components procured from all over the world to maintain high standards of quality and safety. Also, it is the first plant in India to use briquetting method of chrome ore fines agglomeration.

Besides the plant at Gopalpur, Tata Steel has two other ferro-chrome plants in Odisha - a 65,000 TPA plant at Bamnipal in Keonjhar district and the other at Athagarh in Cuttack district of 55,000 TPA capacity under the management of its subsidiary T S Alloys.

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