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Siemens to Supply Equipment for Atoun Steel Long Products Minimill
Nov. 1, 2006
Nov. 2006 — Siemens VAI Metals Technologies, Linz, Austria, recently received an order from Atoun Steel Industry Co. (ASi) for the supply and installation of all process equipment for a new minimill to be built at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
| Founded by a group of Saudi Arabian investors in response to continued demand for rebars by the Saudi Arabian construction industry, Atoun Steel will produce high-quality billets and rebars at its new facility in Yanbu Industrial City II.
Installation of a plant to supply direct-reduced iron (DRI) to the steel mill is foreseen in a second project stage; in the interim, the plant will utilize scrap and iron ore purchased from international markets.
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Siemens VAI will supply all process equipment from the scrap yard to the rolling mill, including an 80/100-tonne Ultimate-type electric arc furnace (EAF), five-strand billet caster equipped with Diamold high-speed casting and Dynaflex oscillation technology, and a long-product rolling milling outfitted with high-performance red ring rolling-mill stands. The EAF will be capable of operation with hot DRI charging in the future. Siemens VAI will also be responsible for the engineering, installation, start-up and commissioning of the new minimill.
Following a two-year construction period, the plant will be capable of producing close to one million tonnes of liquid steel and half a million tonnes of reinforcement bars and rounds per year for the booming local construction industry. The order volume amounts to more than EUR 100 million.
Metals Technologies (MT), a division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S), is one of the world's leading engineering and plant-building companies for the iron and steel industry as well as for the flat-rolling sector of the aluminum industry and for open-cast mining. MT, which was created from the integration of Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, Austria, and the electrical engineering product business and automation solutions of Siemens, provides a comprehensive range of supplies and services for all related technological processes and integrated automation solutions for the entire life-cycle of metallurgical plants.
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. I&S serves a wide range of industries, including metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 8.819 billion.