Tata Metaliks Limited announced that one of company's Blast Furnaces along with its associated facilities, as well as the downstream Ductile Iron Pipe manufacturing unit in company's Kharagpur plant will undergo a planned shutdown, in phases, for annual repair & maintenance from August 13, 2021. While the BF will be out of operation for 4-5 days, the DI Pipe plant will be down for about 7 days. The operations of both BFs and DI Pipe are expected to be fully back on stream by August 24, 2021.