Qatar-based steelmaker Qatar Steel Company (QSC) and Brazil-based iron ore pellet producer SAMARCO Mineracao S.A. recently signed a long-term contract for the supply of iron ore pellets in Doha. The contract was signed by Nasser Hamad Al-Thani, director and general manager of Qatar Steel, and José Tadeu de Moraes, CEO of SAMARCO.
The contract will be vaild for a period of six years, from 2011 to 2016 inclusive. The pellets are the prime raw material for Qatar Steel to produce high quality direct reduced iron (DRI) and hot briquetted iron (HBI).