Kobe to supply plant to Qatar Steel

Archiv – Kobe Steel Ltd of Japan has been awarded a contract to supply Qatar Steel Co. with a Midrex Direct Reduction Plant boasting an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. The US$ 267.4 million project should be completed within 30 months and Kobe Steel will be responsible for design, equipment supply and construction of the facility. Kobe Steel Ltd of Japan has been awarded a contract to supply Qatar Steel Co. with a Midrex Direct Reduction Plant boasting an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. The US$ 267.4 million project should be completed within 30 months and Kobe Steel will be responsible for design, equipment supply and construction of the facility.
The new plant at Mesaieed will boost the customer’s annual DRI production capacity from 780 000 tonnes to 2.3 million tonnes. Currently, the DRI is used to make 700 000 tonnes of steel bars and 300 000 tonnes of billets.
In related news, Midrex Technologies, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, has signed a contract for the world’€™s first hot discharge direct reduction plant to deliver hot DRI to an adjacent melt shop using Midrex’€™s proprietary Hotlink system. The plant will be built for Shadeed Iron & Steel LLC (also referred to as Hamil Steel) – a new Omani company which is a 100% subsidiary of Al-Ghaith Holdings of the United Arab Emirates – and will be Midrex’€™s first direct reduction plant to be sited in Oman.
The plant will feed hot DRI directly into a new melt shop being designed and supplied by VAI/Fuchs of Germany. Construction will be carried out by various subcontractors under the control of Al-Ghaith’€™s Abu Dhabi subsidiary Advance Project Development. The new Midrex Hotlink module will produce 720 000 tonnes per year of hot DRI at 700deg Celsius. The melt shop is expected to consume approximately 500 000 tonnes of hot DRI along with some scrap to produce around 500 000 tonnes of steel billets. The balance of the hot DRI will be hot briquetted for sale.