Kobe supplying DRI to Qatar Steel.Kobe Steel Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所 Ltd. of Japan has been awarded a contract by Qatar Steel Co. to supply a Midrex Direct Reduction Plant with an annual capacity of 1.5 million metric tons. The $267.4-million project should be completed within 30 months. Kobe Steel will be responsible for the design, equipment supply and construction of the facility. The new plant, to be constructed in Mesaieed, Qatar, will boost production capacity of DRI See Digital Research. from 780,000 metric tons to 2.3 million metric tons per year. The facilities in Qatar consist of a Midrex Direct Reduction Plant, which makes DRI; electric arc furnaces An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 ton units used for secondary ; continuous casters casters the small rubber wheels on surgical trolleys, patient stretchers, mobile equipment. conductive casters the casters are impregnated with carbon to facilitate the dispersal of static electricity from equipment. ; and bar rolling mills. Current DRI production capacity, which has nearly doubled from the original capacity of 400,000 metric tons per year, is used to make 700,000 metric tons of steel bars and 300,000 metric tons of billets. |
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