Tata Steel opened a completely automated construction service centre in Uttar Pradesh to manufacture reinforced goods.

The Ghaziabad centre, the company's second such operation after Cuttack in Odisha, would also provide solutions to the construction industry, according to Ashish Anupam, Chairperson, Marketing & Sales, Long Products, Tata Steel, who spoke to the media.

"The company has partnered with channel partner Vikrant Ispat Udyog to launch its first such service centre in western UP to offer customised reinforcement products and solutions to the construction industry," he said.

This facility will produce customised "cut and bend Tata Tiscon TMT rebars, along with coupler threading". The unit provides downstream solutions like welded wire mesh and bore pile cages to the construction industry.