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Mumbai , Feb. 7

MEMBERS of the Technology Committee of the International Iron and Steel Institute are expected to visit the plant of Tata Steel at Jamshedpur.

The members are from 16 countries - Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, US, UK, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, The Netherlands and host India.

Major steel producers represented in the meeting included Mittal Steel, Arcelor, Nippon Steel, Posco, BaoSteel, ThyssenKrupp, & Corus.

The current chairman of the Technology Committee is Dr T. Mukherjee, Deputy Managing Director (Steel), Tata Steel.

The Technical Session of Techco-37, for which the Technology Committee is in India, is expected to review the progress made in the different projects, which have been undertaken under this committee. The progress review includes reports on "Improving the Yield" project, "CO2 Breakthrough Programme" and "China Project".

Host Country presentations are to be made by Tata Steel, JVSL, Usha Martin, Essar and SAIL.

The members will also visit the Usha Martin plant where sponge iron produced in rotary kilns and hot metal coming out of mini blast furnaces are fed into electric arc furnaces for producing steel.

The next meeting of the Technology Committee will be held at Buenos Aires in April 2006.

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