Ruukki to provide structural steel for gigantic power plant in Poland

Finnish steelmaker Ruukki has agreed a contract to deliver steel structures for a new unit to be built at the Połaniec power plant in Poland. The unit, which will be one of the world's largest power plants fuelled by biomass, is worth nearly €13 million and includes the manufacture, delivery and installation of the steel frame structures and foundations for the boiler and auxiliary equipment buildings.
 
After the new unit is commissioned at the end of 2012, the entire Połaniec power plant, the largest in southeast Poland, will have an output of over 7 terawatt-hours of power energy per year, equal to the supply for over 2 million households.
 
Manufacture of the steel structures will begin at Ruukki's plant in Oborniki, Poland in August. Deliveries will last about seven months. The purchaser is Foster Wheeler Energia Polska, which is part of Switzerland-based Foster Wheeler Global Power Group. The developer is GDF SUEZ Energia Polska S.A., the fifth largest power producer in Poland.