Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has announced that it has agreed with the Spanish company Cie Egana to deliver a total of 25,000 mt of metal-coated, high-strength steel to be used to manufacture support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants. Cie Egana will deliver support arms for parabolic reflectors for the NOOR II thermosolar plant in Morocco and a thermosolar plant in Kathu, South Africa. SSAB's deliveries will begin in the current month of December and continue until October 2016.
SSAB also delivered metal-coated, high-strength steels to the NOOR I thermosolar plant built earlier in Morocco. When the NOOR II plant is completed, the two plants together will have a combined output of 360 megawatts. The Kathu thermosolar plant in South Africa will provide electricity for around 80,000 homes.