Major Contract for Siemens:

Steel Authority of India Orders Steel Plant for EUR 200 Million

Siemens received an order from Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for a new steel mill which will be built at the company's Bhilai Steel Plant in Bhilai, India. The project has an order volume of approximately 200 million euros. Siemens delivers three converters for the production of crude steel including electrics and automation, the primary and secondary dedusting facilities and converter gas recovery. The three converters will be capable of producing more than four million tons of crude steel per year and successively started up beginning in the second quarter of 2011.
With an annual steel output of approximately 14 million tons in 2007, SAIL is the leading steelmaking company in India. The company has at its disposal five integrated iron and steel worksand three special-steel production plants. Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is India’s largest producer of rails and heavy steel plates and is also a major producer of structural steels. Presently, BSP has an annual production capacity of more than three million tons of steel. In response to the growing market demand for steel in India, the output at BSP will be increased to seven million tons by 2011 as part of an ambitious expansion program.
For this project Siemens VAI, a business unit of the Siemens division Industry Solutions, will
engineer and supply the three converters and provide the related drives as well as electrics and
Level 1 and Level 2 automation systems. To meet environmental requirements Siemens VAI
delivers for the steel works the complete primary and secondary dedusting systems and a gasrecovery system, designed for a peak gas flow of up to 115,000 Nm3/h. The secondary dedusting system will exhaust and clean the offgas from the hot-metal-desulphurization station, the converter charging and tapping areas, from the secondary metallurgical facilities as well as from the additive/alloy-bunker complex.

This is the latest in a series of metallurgical projects that Siemens VAI has received or has already implemented for Steel Authority of India, including several contracts with a three-digit-Million order volume for the expansion of the Bokaro steel works.

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