Tata Steel sells Singapore unit NatSteel

Oct 1, 2021

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MUMBAI: About 17 years after it acquired NatSteel Singapore, Tata Metal has bought the enterprise for Rs 1,275 crore ($172 million). Nevertheless, it has retained NatSteel’s wires unit in Thailand. Singaporean alloy dealer TopTip Holding, which has a turnover of over $1 billion, has acquired NatSteel’s two Singapore services and one Malaysia unit.
The divested enterprise, which had posted a income of Rs 2,852 crore in FY21, had a destructive web price as on March 31, 2021. Destructive web price means an extra of liabilities over property. Tata Metal stated the wires enterprise in Thailand (Siam Industrial Wires) was separated from NatSteel Singapore and was consolidated with T S International Holdings, an oblique 100% arm of the Indian firm.
Up to now, Tata Metal had tried to promote NatSteel Singapore however the transfer had failed. In 2019, the Indian firm had inked an settlement with China’s Hebei Iron and Metal Group to promote NatSteel Singapore together with its different operations in Vietnam and Thailand (Millennium Metal). However the deal had collapsed because it did not move muster with the Hebei authorities. Tata Metal subsequently bought NatSteel Vietnam to Thai Hing Buying and selling, a neighborhood participant in that nation.
Following the most recent improvement, Tata Metal is left with the bigger Millennium Metal operations in Southeast Asia. NatSteel Singapore was Tata Metal’s first main abroad acquisition in 2004 that put the Indian firm in a beachhead place within the international alloy market. Subsequently it purchased Millennium Metal and the UK-based Corus.



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