
Tata Steel trials Canadian iron ore to hedge against future shortages
₹183.75 apiece on the BSE on Wednesday.Tata Steel, through its Canadian subsidiary, owns iron ore assets in the Labrador and Northern Quebec regions of the country. In FY225, Tata Steel had an iron ore production of 40.5 million tonnes in India, and 3 million tonnes in Canada.
Out of the 3 million tonnes, the Canada subsidiary shipped 2.4 million tonnes.TSMC already supplied iron ore to its subsidiary in the Netherlands, according to two executives quoted above.The trial also comes at a time when Tata Steel is restructuring its European operations, including shutting a blast furnace in the Netherlands as part of its green steel transition, potentially freeing up exportable volumes from Canada.TSMC is a partnership between Tata Steel that holds a 82% stake and the Government of Quebec owning the rest 18%.In FY25, the Canadian subsidiary reported an income of ₹1,422.33 crore and a loss of ₹1,457.06 crore.The expiry of captive iron ore mines from FY2030 is set to reverse the iron ore security among private steel companies, according to a Kotak Institutional Equities report dated 8 December, 2025. “Majority of Tata’s operating iron ore leases will expire and we estimate a potential erosion of ~30-40% of its steel operating margins post-FY2030E,” analysts Sumangal Nevatia, Siddharth Mehrotra and Keshav Kumar wrote in their report.“The expiry of captive mines in FY2030, according to the MMDR Act would significantly increase Tata’s raw material costs from FY2031,” the analysts said.Tata Steel’s total iron ore requirement by around FY2031 is about 46.7 million tonnes per year, according to the Kotak analysts.The steelmaker has taken a cautious stance on bidding for iron ore mines in auctions.“A key consideration for
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