Esfahan's 3rd blast furnace to be running by Q3

Managing director of Iran-based Ghaem Reza Industries Complex, Mr Sirus Motamen, has announced that to date 15,000 metric tons of equipment has been supplied to domestic steelmaker Esfahan Steel for the plant's third blast furnace, and that the rest of the equipment is to be shipped to the steelmaker within the next three months. The equipment required in Esfahan Steel's project for a third blast furnace, which is expected to be up and running in the third quarter of this year, has a total weight amounting to 21,000 metric tons. The new third blast furnace will allow Esfahan Steel to add approximately 1.4 million metric tons of crude steel annually to its existing capacity of 2.5 million metric tons of crude steel a year.