Qatar Steel to increase billet output capacity and reduce emissions

Tuesday, 28 September 2010 12:00:28 (GMT+3)   |  
       

On September 28, Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Siemens VAI) said that it has won an order in the double-digit million euro range to modernize the Qatar Steel Company's steelworks in Mesaieed, Qatar.

The project aims to expand billet production capacity by up to 30 percent while at the same time reducing specific consumption values and waste gas emissions. The modernized plant is scheduled to start production in the middle of 2012.

Siemens VAI will supply a 95 ton electric arc furnace, a 95 ton ladle furnace, a five-strand continuous billet casting plant and the associated ancillary equipment for the steelworks in Mesaieed Industrial City, which is located about 50 kilometers south of Doha, the capital of Qatar. A new dedusting plant is also being installed in the works, which will considerably reduce emissions from steel production. The scope of supply is rounded off by a system for charging the electric arc furnace with DRI and by alloying facilities.

Qatar Steel Company is one of the leading steelmakers in the Gulf Region and has been operating a meltshop and rolling mill in Mesaieed Industrial City since 1974. Its capacity is being increased to meet the growing demand for structural steels in the Gulf Region.


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