Vietnamese steel producer Hoa Phat Steel has awarded a contract to an Italian steel production technology specialist for the design, supply, and supervision of four greenfield blast furnaces.
The project is part of the new Dung Quat iron and steel making complex committed to by Hoa Phat, which currently operates a 2 million metric ton per year (mtpy) iron and steel making plant in Hai Duong. The scope of the project also includes the hot blast mains, bustle mains, tuyere assemblies, level 2 automation systems and pulverized coal injection systems. The new plant will add 4 mtpy to Hoa Phat’s annual steelmaking capacity.
The four blast furnaces will have a 1080 m³ working volume and are designed for an annual production of 1 million tons of hot metal each. The furnaces will be supplied by Danieli Corus and equipped with the company’s high conductivity cooling and lining design based on copper plate coolers combined with graphite and silicon carbide refractories. The four furnaces will be completed and commissioned in sequence, with the fourth being scheduled for delivering the first hot metal in 2019.
