US-based Phoenix Services has announced that it has signed a long-term contract for the agglomeration of internally generated materials at UAE-based steelmaker Emirates Steel.
According to Phoenix Services, this contract is part of Emirates Steel's green initiatives program with the specific goal of enabling the re-use of steel mill by-products. The recycling project will not only be environmentally friendly but will also reduce steelmaking costs. The related Phoenix Services plant is expected to be completed and operational in 2019.
Phoenix Services is a leading global provider of outsourced industrial services to steel mills, with operations at 34 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Africa, and now entering markets in the Middle East. Phoenix's primary service offerings are critical to the operation of its customers' mills and include the removal, handling and processing of slag; metal recovery; scrap preparation; scrap yard management; loading of charging buckets; screening raw materials; refractory tear-out; marketing of slag, other by-products and co-products; delivery of finished steel products using on-highway trucks; and other ancillary services.