THE ECHO - Ferrostaal
THE ECHO - Ferrostaal
THE ECHO - Ferrostaal
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Vietnam is on the road to becoming an industrial nation. The<br />
demand for steel is growing all the time due to the emerging industry<br />
and the countless infrastructure projects in the country. In the last<br />
ten years, demand for steel in Vietnam has risen by an average of<br />
20 percent per year. And the current annual demand of 6 million<br />
tons is set to rise to approximately 15 million tons by 2015. In 2005,<br />
steel imports amounted to 5.5 million tons, equalling more than<br />
90 percent. Vietnam intends to reduce its heavy dependency on<br />
imports, in particular of warm-rolled and cold-rolled flat products,<br />
by securing extensive new investments in the country.<br />
Vinashin’s new mill will produce heavy plate with a maximum<br />
width of 3 m, maximum length of 18 m, and a strength of 5 to 50 mm.<br />
The raw material will be imported steel slabs. The steel<br />
construction halls are approximately 600 m long. Since the entire<br />
area on which they are being built is water-logged because it was<br />
reclaimed from the sea, the foundations of the halls and the<br />
heavy machinery had to be mounted on concrete piles. The foundations<br />
and halls are to be constructed by Vietnamese companies,<br />
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VINASHIN BUILDS A NEW PLATE MILL IN VIETNAM<br />
BUILDING SHIPS WITH <strong>THE</strong>IR OWN STEEL<br />
The Vietnamese state-owned shipbuilding group Vinashin will in future be able to produce the heavy plate it requires to build ships.<br />
In the Quang Ninh province near the port of Cai Lan in northern Vietnam, Vinashin is constructing a new hot-rolling mill with an initial<br />
annual capacity of 350,000 tons. MAN <strong>Ferrostaal</strong> is responsible for engineering and project management.<br />
while the rolling mill machinery will be supplied by Chinese<br />
manufacturers.<br />
ON-SITE EXPERTS<br />
MAN <strong>Ferrostaal</strong> will work with a large team of on-site experts to<br />
supervise and coordinate the engineering. The team will be reinforced<br />
by Vietnamese engineers and will receive support from the<br />
MAN <strong>Ferrostaal</strong> office in Hanoi.<br />
A steel manufacturing plant is being constructed at the same time<br />
right next to the rolling mill. The production lines originated in<br />
Germany and were dismantled and shipped by order of MAN<br />
<strong>Ferrostaal</strong> in the summer of 2005. MAN <strong>Ferrostaal</strong> will supervise<br />
their re-assembly in Vietnam.<br />
Wilhelm Bruckmann<br />
The first concrete piles<br />
were driven into the soil<br />
in January 2006.<br />
The heart of the rolling mill:<br />
the heavy plate mill stand.