United Brothers Holding -which has its core business in Kurdistan, in the oil and gas sector- awarded Danieli with the order for a new steelmaking plant
Source: Danieli – The plant will be installed within an existing building in the industrial area of Khor Al Zubair, near Bassora. The new steelmaking plant will have a production capacity of 500,000 tpy of billets. It consists of a 70-t Electric Arc Furnace, a 70-t Ladle Furnace equipped with ladle lifting system to avoid crane engagement for ladle transfer car exchange, a material handling system serving EAF and LF with ferroalloys and additives, and a fume dedusting plant filtering both EAF and LF. A 9-m radius Continuous Caster Machine, will produce 150×150 mm square billets on four strands
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