Germany-based steel giant ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe has announced that it is supplying 17,000 metric tons of high-strength, quenched and tempered plate to the Ingula pumped storage scheme project of the South African power utility Eskom.
Accordingly, the 17,000 tons of quenched and tempered plate for the project are the biggest single order since this product line was introduced in the ThyssenKrupp Group over 40 years ago. The steel plates supplied for Ingula are 32-60 millimeters thick and have strength of 700 megapascals.
The steel will be used to manufacture piping up to 5.1 meters in diameter for the scheme. The €16.6 billion Ingula power station is currently under construction and is scheduled to come on line at the end of 2012.