China's Beijing-based Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Company, has ordered four new coke oven batteries with a total capacity of 4.2 million mt from ThyssenKrupp Group's technology company Uhde. The equipment will be used at Shougang's coke plants being built within the scope of its new integrated steel mill on the Caofeidian peninsula of Hebei Province, around 200km south-east of Beijing.
The four coke oven batteries will produce around 12.000 mt of coke per day from around 15.000 mt of coal. The first coke oven battery will come on-stream in late 2008.
Uhde's scope of services under this order includes the entire basic engineering, supply of special equipment and supervision of the erection and commissioning activities. Uhde will also carry out the detail engineering in conjunction with its Chinese partner, ACRE Coking & Refractory Engineering Consulting Corporation. The total order is worth around Euro 40 million.
Meanwhile, Shougang is planning to commence production at the integrated steel mill in June 2008. The planned annual production capacity of the mill is 8.98 million mt of iron, 9.7 million mt of crude steel, and 9.13 million mt of finished steel. The 4.2 million mt capacity new coke plant will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the new mill. The company is planning to purchase the required coking coal from Shanxi Province and Hebei Province in China rather than importing.