German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that its plantmaking subsidiary Uhde has been contracted by German steel producer Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) to build a second coke oven battery at HKM's Duisburg Huckingen site as well as to expand the gas treatment unit and revamp the pushing machines, coal charging cars and transfer machines.
Accordingly, the new coke oven battery will enable HKM to increase its current production from 1.16 million mt to 2.32 million mt of coke per year, while the expansion of the existing gas treatment unit will increase the current throughput from 75,000 to 160,000 standard cubic meters of coke oven gas per hour.
Uhde's services with regard to this coke oven plant project include the engineering, supply and erection of most of the overall complex.
The plant is scheduled to produce its first coke in autumn 2013.
HKM´s annual production capacity totals 5.6 million mt, which equals about 12 percent of Germany´s crude steel production. HKM´s semi-finished products (slabs and round bars) are exclusively delivered to its parent companies, ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH and V&M Tubes S.A.S., where they are processed into finished goods.