LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH
LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH
LONG PRODUCTS BULLETIN - SMS Meer GmbH
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14 Newsletter 2/2010<br />
Steelworks<br />
for Long Products<br />
600,000 tpy of blooms/beam blanks and heavy sections<br />
<strong>SMS</strong> Concast and <strong>SMS</strong> <strong>Meer</strong><br />
supply steel complex to Bahrain<br />
From left: Saad Rashid Al-Mohannadi, General Manager of Qatar Steel; Khalid<br />
Al Qadeeri, Chairman & Managing Director of Sulb; Hiroyuki Inoue, President<br />
of Yamato Kogyo; Dr. Joachim Schönbeck, President & CEO of <strong>SMS</strong> <strong>Meer</strong>; Kiseok<br />
Park, Chairman & CEO of Samsung Engineering; Jacques-Frédéric Zuber, President<br />
& CEO of <strong>SMS</strong> Concast.<br />
United Steel Company (Sulb) in the Kingdom<br />
of Bahrain awarded <strong>SMS</strong> Concast and <strong>SMS</strong><br />
<strong>Meer</strong> the order to design and supply on a<br />
turnkey basis a steelworks for blooms/beam<br />
blanks and heavy sections. The minimill will<br />
be part of the new, fully integrated steel complex<br />
in Al Hidd, a town on a sand spit on the<br />
south-eastern extremety of Muharraq Island.<br />
The contract is for the construction and supply of one 120-t<br />
electric arc furnace, one ladle furnace, one bloom/beam<br />
blank casting plant and one heavy-section rolling mill. The<br />
order will be realized in cooperation with Samsung Engineering<br />
as EPC partner (Engineering, Procurement & Construction).<br />
Commissioning of the overall plant is planned for the<br />
second half of 2012.<br />
With the awarding of the order for the technological core equipment<br />
including the complete automation system to <strong>SMS</strong> <strong>Meer</strong> and<br />
<strong>SMS</strong> Concast, United Steel selected best performing production<br />
technology for long products.<br />
<strong>SMS</strong> Concast will supply a state-of-the-art steelworks with an annual<br />
capacity of 850,000 t. It will comprise one 120-t Ultra-High-<br />
Power EAF for continuous DRI charging, a ladle furnace and a<br />
three-strand continuous casting machine for various near-to-netshape<br />
bloom and beam blank sections. The delivery also includes<br />
the material handling system for ferroalloys addition and a powerful<br />
dedusting system.
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